Egypt H5N1 Human Cases: Jan - June 11, 2011 - 31 Cases, 12 Deaths

The highest rate of mortality (b bird flu) in 2011

Detection and local development minister, Major General Mohsen Noamany for the arrival of deaths due to avian and pandemic influenza to the highest rates since the recognition and presence in Egypt, was during the period between the outbreak of the revolution of the 25th of January until the present time. Where Egypt has recorded since January this year until 22 June, 31 cases died of the disease, 12 of them.

Noamany attributed this to the state of security chaos, which the country has witnessed since the start of the revolution and even now, as some traders took advantage of the situation and have handled live birds is codified at random and without medical supervision or security.

And claims continued by the poultry traders and some other bodies to freeze the law 70 of 2009, which prevents the circulation of live birds, the Minister of local development that is under discussion to reconsider the law with the Supreme Committee for the birds of the Cabinet while not prejudicing the interests of the Egyptian citizen.

For his part, Chairman of the assistance the Ministry of solidarity and social justice, Mahmoud Ibrahim, told «Sunrise» that the freezing of Law 70 and to allow the circulation of live birds will help to reduce their prices by will exceed 30%, especially with the advent of Ramadan, which will help to reduce the prices of meat and face exploitation poultry traders to consumers.

The Ibrahim that the government the opportunity to allow the circulation of live birds and reduce the spread of the epidemic at the same time and by making daily patrols by the Board of Veterinary Medicine on all farms and shops of live poultry to ensure the safety and free of the epidemic, which will help to increase the rates of the legitimate trade of poultry and the reduction of the smuggling of live poultry, which works to raise the price.

Comes at a time, who questioned the Division of poultry Cairo Chamber of Commerce in the spread of bird flu as exaggerated, heading a memo to the Council of Ministers accused the government of Ahmed Nazif, the former of misleading the public, as all deaths that have been previously announced, there were only home a slight, demanding the formation of a neutral committee of the Egyptian university professors to detect the spread of the epidemic is real or not.

According to WHO statistics, the total number of cases of bird flu in Egypt since its inception in 2006 reached 150 cases of whom 52 died, and reached its highest this year in 2011 until last June to a record 31 cases, 12 of them died.