Conflicting change strain of bird flu in Egypt

Strain of the virus requires a change of new vaccines
Monday, April 13, 2009


Dr. Mustafa Orhan, former director of the Regional Office of avian flu, the WHO in a statement to the seventh day there have been some changes in the strain of the bird flu virus in Egypt, and it changed from year to year, but said he could not be sure that those changes on the avian virus mutates birds in Egypt, which allows the form by moving from person to person.

Orhan emphasized that the strain of the disease change from year to year, requires a change in the types of vaccines used in combat, confirming that the virus has not mutated, however, now fully transformed into an epidemic of people going through. It was necessary to adhere to the infected countries, particularly Egypt and bio-safety standards in the poultry, poultry farms and slaughtered, and others.

Orhan, Mustafa said, the alleged ineffectiveness of the vaccines used in Egypt is not accurate, because the rate of effectiveness of any vaccine does not exceed 90% in less than 50%, indicating that helps the spread of the disease in Egypt is a great education for slum birds.

For his part, admitted that Fattuh Darwish Director of the Preventive Medicine Department of Veterinary Services Authority, bad situation in Egypt said it was for reasons related to the way birds in the houses and farms and the extensive spread of shops selling live birds. Darwish pointed out that the avian influenza virus has not mutated, and has not changed its lineage, or take any other forms, pointing out that he is still in position and which does not allow him to move from one person to another.

Noteworthy that the number of cases infected with the disease in Egypt reached 63 cases, died, including 23 so far.

The British Independent newspaper has noted in its recent report to the symptoms of bird flu in Egypt has started to take a different form from last year, which raised doubts in the World Health Organization that the virus could be on his way to a mutation in Egypt, especially after his appearance on a number of children in Shortly after his affects adults, children and adults, which may mean that the virus may be latent in the adults, without showing any symptoms of the disease, and pointed out that the World Health Organization supports the search for the time being in Egypt aims to ensure that developments reached by the virus, through examination of the blood of persons who come into close contact with infected birds.