Monday, September 27, 2010 - 18:44
Asked Dr. Farid Hosni, head of the project "Stop bird flu stop AI" of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the need to implement government decisions to ban the circulation and sale of live birds, to avoid the spread of avian flu is widely across provinces.
Hosni said that the process of mutation Influenza continues unless it is to eradicate the disease, warning of the outbreak of the disease and its spread in the winter especially in January and February, a period that has been very active for the disease.
Hosni said that the proportion of deaths in bird flu account for 59% globally, and added Egypt's candidate countries from among the five countries in the world will be a pandemic coming through, it is also the only country in Africa which is still disease exists yet been able to Nigeria's eradication final.
He explained that 90% of the farms in Egypt are not licensed, and therefore the owners do not report the emergence of cases in which, the purpose of licensing is to compensate the farm owners in the event of the discovery of the disease after being told about his appearance.
He criticized Hosni policy vaccination of poultry breeding rural, asserting that it failed miserably, "The immunization does not prevent the disease, but prevents the onset of symptoms only," The proportion of immunization in Egypt did not exceed 10% of the proportion of those birds, according to a report of the Food and Agriculture.
With the complexity of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, intensive meetings with directors of the coming period directorates in the governorates of Veterinary Medicine in preparation for the confrontation and control avian influenza pandemic.
Said Dr. Mohamed Mustafa Garhi Chairman, General Authority for Veterinary Services, said that the Authority contracted to large quantities of the vaccine used to combat the disease, these vaccines will be distributed to the directorates in the governorates of Veterinary Medicine, known rearing of live birds.
The Garhi that big farms will be vaccinated with the intensification of the withdrawal of samples and examine them, stressing the need to assist the State in the application of the law prohibiting the sale of live birds and investigation of the active virus of avian influenza in different governorates.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation has begun in the activation of the ministerial decision to close shops and trading of live birds.
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