Dr. Abdel-Rahman Shahin, spokesman of the Ministry of Health that the real danger which threatens Egypt now is the Avian flu, and not swine flu A (H1N1), stressing that the ministry had applied all actions which would resist the virus and avian influenza control in spite of the high the number of infected cases in the past four months, he said, adding that the virus is endemic and must be well.
On the recurrence of infection in children is remarkable in the recent period Shaheen stressed in his speech to the conference, convened by the World Health Organization in coordination with the Ministry of Health to discuss the latest developments for the spread of avian influenza virus and pigs recently in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, the number of injuries to children arrived in the case of 20 of them died cases so far, pointing out that the reason for the recurrence of infection in children is Mkhaltthm directly to the infected birds living in the many families that depend on the education of household poultry in Egypt and up to 5 million families.
On the level of disease and swine flu, Sahin said: «that Egypt is still free of the disease so far, pointing out that the possibility of transmission of the disease in Egypt in addition to the significant opportunities for the virus mutates« H1N1 »by next autumn, to be more aggressive.
With Dr. Alepeshra good adviser emerging diseases, the World Health Organization virus A (H1N1) as a cunning, indicating that the virus is still weak so far, but it is possible that genetic mutations occur by mutate to make it without prior warning, pointing out that the virus so far the pace is slow, but this situation will change soon, calling on all states to keep a high degree of vigilance and not to be complacent in monitoring the health situation by pointing out that the number of infected cases and the number of affected countries on the increase, which calls for international concern and requires a response of solidarity among all the countries of the world to beat back the epidemic.
. The number of infected cases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to the 23 cases, 18 of them in Kuwait and the situation in the UAE and the situation in Bahrain, the latest of three cases in Lebanon, all in good health and there were no case of death, even now.
And the nature of swine flu confirmed that the virus is spreading among the youth aged between 15 and 29 years, and revealed that it does not spread among children less than 5 years in a large one and symptoms such as avian flu and seasonal, but the latter is more prevalent among the people compared to other species in addition to that people have the ability to hit other significantly.
As for the role of the Organization in the territory of the Eastern Mediterranean, stressed «human» it has trained a cadre of every country to deal with suspected cases and positive cases in addition to providing technical support to ministries of health in the region as well as the distribution of the drug Tamiflu to 72 of the poorest in the world to work together strategic reserve of the drug for use in the country where there is a pandemic.
On the manufacture of vaccine for swine flu and how to distribute it to the nations of the world has just confirmed «d. Zuheir Laj» WHO representative in Cairo, that even now is still at the stage of knowledge of the quality of breeds suitable for the manufacture of the vaccine to be distributed after the strain of all pharmaceutical companies capable of producing vaccine.
He pointed out that the organization in turn encourage all nations of the world to manufacture the vaccine locally and assist in the transfer of technology to ensure the greatest possible number of vaccines at the earliest possible time, stressing that the agreement will be specific to the rate of production of the vaccine between the Organization and the pharmaceutical companies in the developed world to be submitted to the States the third world, in addition to that there will be the amount will be given to the organization of knowledge on the distribution of the poorest countries in the world.
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