"Health" is facing the integration of avian influenza with pigs

6 Monday, August 17, 2009 - 14:46


Ministry of Health started to follow all the precautionary measures to ensure that the possibility of integration of the avian influenza virus with swine, and together form a new virus may be more serious in terms of the various surveillance procedures porous land and sea and air for the detection of cases infected with swine flu coming from abroad.

According to the statement of the Media on Monday on the status of the operating room information the Council of Ministers, the Ministry is the separation of hospitals that are treating bird flu patients from those patients treated by the swine flu, as well as the continued tracking of bird flu and not be neglected at the level of all the provinces of the Republic, In addition to increasing the awareness of the public through various means.

The statement said that the discovery of new positive case of 14 infected with swine flu to all people of Egyptian nationality to a number of cases have been found as of last night of her 482 cases (including one deceased), according to the results of the examination Mouallimi and data of the Ministry of Health.

Have included the new cases (one case coming from Saudi Arabia, and another case from the UAE, and 12 resident within the state of Egypt, has been the introduction of all cases of the hospital, and state of health of all stable.