Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Egypt: alert after an outbreak of plague on the border with Libya

Egypt: alert after an outbreak of plague on the border with Libya


GMT 22:15:00 2009 الثلائاء 16 يونيو
GMT 22:15:00 2009 Althelaia June 16




القدس العربي اللندنية
Quds Al-Arabi, London




17/06/2009
17/06/2009
انباء عن تسرب الفيروس من أحد معسكرات الجيش قرب طبرق
News of the leak of the virus from an army camp near Tobruk

مصر: استنفار بعد انتشار الطاعون على الحدود مع ليبيا
Egypt: alert after an outbreak of plague on the border with Libya

القاهرة ـ حسام أبو طالب
Cairo, Hossam Abu Taleb


The Egyptian government has entered a new cycle to make sure of the following news reports that refer to an outbreak of plague in a village inside the Libyan border, only about a hundred and fifty kilometers from the Egyptian border.

The Government has moved quickly in the afternoon yesterday sent several medical teams and other Interior and the Ministry of Agriculture to monitor the situation and develop plans that would prevent the spread of the disease, which is one of the most serious diseases known to mankind.

The behind the emergence of the plague of broad concern to the government, which mobilized all their forces to resist the swine flu, which revealed that the reports of three new cases were disclosed on Tuesday night.

In an apparent declaration of a truce with the swine flu and the Ministry of Health decided to establish a number of operating rooms in order to follow up news to keep the plague.

She yesterday and medical units of the depth of the border of the Libyan port SALLUM in an attempt to establish the purpose of observation posts and checkpoints in order to prevent the plague from reaching inside the Egyptian border.

Information indicated that infected hundreds of Libyan government and there is a wall of secrecy imposed on the subject to prevent the imposition of the embargo on public access and to prevent a panic among the citizens in Egypt and Libya.

There were information indicating that the source of the disease caused by a leak of the virus that causes the disease from the remains of stocks of biological weapons in an army camp in the Libyan city of Tobruk Trcp South Jamahiriya.

The source of the border guards that plague symptoms first appeared on some of the soldiers in this camp for several weeks, has caused the deaths of some of them, amid the discretion of the Libby disaster.

In exclusive statements to Al 'Quds Al-Arabi,' said Minister of Health Hatem el-Gabali and reassuring that the situation is under control.

He added that the Egyptian government is fully prepared to deal with any developments and assured the citizens, stressing that the government will not underestimate any emergency.

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Al 'Quds Al-Arabi' that has the highest points in the last few days in coordination with the Ministry of the Environment and the choice of several locations for the establishment of mass graves in the event of cases of death among the citizens.

For his part, the spokesman of the Ministry of Health.
Abdel Rahman Shaheen said the ministry sent two medical teams and equipment are of high potential to Salloum, and the ministry to establish a field laboratory and isolation on a hill near the port SALLUM for the reception and detention of any cases being discovered, in addition to the presence of 7 ambulances in SALLUM in the case of fully prepared for any emergency.

This comes at a time when the conflicting reports in Libya on the causes of the spread of the disease and the number of victims and injured due to the spread, while it said the Libyan health authorities that the cause of his appearance due to the proliferation of rodents and insects in the home, other sources confirm that the outbreak started about two months ago in south of the city of Tobruk, some 150 kilometers from the Egyptian border, and 1500 kilometers from the Libyan capital Tripoli, has been interpreted at the time that the mysterious disease.

The local sources within the city of Tobruk on the fears of the disaster turned out to be a comprehensive health and epidemic in Libya, and called Ballepien to extend a helping hand for cooperation on the eradication of this deadly epidemic '.

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