Egypt first in the world of bird flu in 2009

28/03/09

Egypt topped the list of countries most affected by avian flu in 2009, after a Ministry of Health 9 injuries since the beginning of this year, compared with 8 cases over the last year, the Ministry announced on Monday, injuring a girl from Qena, bringing the total casualties in Egypt since the beginning of the epidemic to 60 cases.

Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, spokesman of the Ministry of Health, said that despite the high number of casualties, Egypt is the least in the proportion of deaths, saying that among the casualties of the 23 cases there have been 60 deaths and only recognized that the virus is endemic in Egypt, and he left them and elimination of a many years, perhaps decades, and that if it mutates into a more severe type of «is strongly», explaining that it was now no way out of the crisis, however, the transformation of society to the frozen birds.

In Qena, the Department of health is a state of emergency in the hospital after the fever in the central laboratories of the Ministry of Health wounded girl «Israa Saad Shafi», which developed the symptoms of the disease last Monday and was taken to the hospital.

In Alexandria, executed the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine million birds, because of the lack of certificates to prove they are free of the disease have been seized in raids on intensive farms, bird shops in the east and west of the city.

In Fayoum, Dr. Hussein Sophie Abutaleb, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health, the death of the girl child بسملة Mohammed «45 days» Tamiflu drug in a hospital after being transferred from the hospital yesterday evening fevers Fayyoum I, on suspicion of being infected with the disease, explaining that he had been sampled and sent to central laboratories, but they died before the results of the analysis, pointing out that the samples were withdrawn from her family as a precaution.
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