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Bookmark and Share نساء عجائز وأطفال وشباب ورجال ومعوقون يحملون أثقالاً كبيرة من البضائع قادمين من منفذ مساعد الليبى وسط صخب أشبه بسوق العتبة أيام زمان لعبة "حلق حوش" بين الأمن والتجار الذين يطلق عليهم اسم "مهربين" وعجز سلطات المنفذ عن السيطرة التامة فى ضبط الحركة داخله، هو أول ما تلحظه عند دخولك إلى منطقة الوصول من ليبيا. Women, children and the elderly, men and youth with disabilities have great weights of goods from the port aide amid the clamor of the Libyan market, like the days when the threshold for the game of "beasts of hours" between security and traders who are called "smugglers" and the inability of the authorities performing control in full control of movement within it, is The first thing signified when you log in to access the area from Libya.

عند دخولنا المنفذ صباح اليوم، كان أول من قابلنا فرقة التطهير وإبادة الحشرات بملابسهم الواقية الذين أرسلتهم وزارة الصحة اليوم وهم يستعدون لرش المبيدات وبودرة الحشرات قبل زيارة وزير الصحة المرتقبة للمنفذ خلال الأيام القادمة. When we entered the port this morning, we met the first task of the clean-up and exterminating protective clothes sent by the Ministry of Health said they were preparing to spray pesticides and insect powder prior to the visit of the Minister of Health of the upcoming port in the coming days.

تجول اليوم السابع داخل المنفذ للوقوف على حقيقة الاستعدادات والاحتياطات التى تتخذها سلطات المنفذ والسلطات الصحية لفرض الرقابة الصحية، ورغم التضييق الأمنى والرقابة اللصيقة لمنع التقاط الصور أو الحصول على معلومات توصلنا إلى حقائق خطيرة. Seventh day of curfew in the port to see the reality of the preparations and precautions taken by the port authorities and health authorities to impose control over health, despite the security restrictions and close monitoring to prevent a photo or information on the facts we have to be serious.

الحقيقة الأخطر والأهم كانت عن الحجر الصحى بالمنفذ الذى يمر خلاله حوالى 3000 مسافر لم يكن به سوى طبيب واحد فقط بدون بديل، وعقب رفع حالة الطوارئ تم رفع عدد الأطباء إلى ثلاثة أطباء وتوقيع الكشف بشكل عشوائى بواقع ركاب سيارة واحدة من بين ركاب 10 سيارات، كما أن مئات المترجلين بين منفذ السلوم ومنفذ مساعد لا يمرون على الحجر الصحى مطلقا. Indeed, the most serious and most important port on the quarantine, which is about 3000 passengers, which was not only by a doctor and only one without an alternative, following the lifting of the state of emergency was lifted the number of doctors to three doctors and check at random by a passenger car and one of the 10 passenger cars, as Hundreds of pedestrians between the outlet port SALLUM assistant did not go through the quarantine at all.

كما أن الحجر الصحى ليس به أجهزة مسح حرارى للكشف على المسافرين الحاملين للأنفلونزا، وعقب التطورات الأخيرة قررت وزارة الصحة تركيب أجهزة خلال الأسبوع القادم حسب تصريحات مسئول بالمنفذ. The quarantine is not the thermal scanners to detect passengers carrying influenza, following the recent developments and the installation of the Ministry of Health during the next week, according to official statements port.

مسئول آخر أبدى استياءه من التعامل مع الموقف فى ظل فوضى التنقل بين البلدين وعدم السيطرة الصحية وتطبق الفحوصات الطبية بشكل يتناسب مع الحدث، وأشار إلى أن التصرف الأمثل هو إغلاق المنفذ خلال الفترة الحالية. Another official expressed his displeasure to deal with the situation in the chaos of movement between the two countries and the lack of control of health and medical tests are applied commensurate with the event, and pointed out that the optimal disposition of the closure is implemented during the current period.

المفاجأة الثانية كشفها أحد سكان مدينة السلوم الذى يتردد على منطقة الطرشة التى ظهرت فيها الإصابات، وهى أن هذه المنطقة تقع على بعد 25 كيلو فقط من الحدود المصرية جنوب السلوم بحوالى 120 كيلو، فى حين أن التركيز كله على منفذ السلوم فقط.. Surprisingly, the second detection of a resident of the town of Salloum, who frequented the area Trcp the injuries that have emerged, namely, that this region is located about 25 kilometers from the border just south of the Egyptian SALLUM about 120 kilometers, while the whole focus only on the port SALLUM .. كما أكد أن ما ظهر من إصابات فى منطقة الطرشة جنوب طبرق ليس سببها الطاعون، وإنما بسبب تحلل بعض الأسلحة القديمة التى تحيط بالمنطقة. He also stressed that what emerged from the injuries in the area south of Tobruk Trcp not caused by the plague, but because of the decomposition of some of the old weapons that surround the region.

هذا دفعنا لمطالبة أحد مصادرنا الموثوق فيها بالاتصال بأحد أقاربه فى ليبيا الذى أكد أن المنطقة المصابة تقع فى محيط مطار طبرق، وبالقرب منها مخازن أسلحة سوفيتية قديمة تسربت منها مواد كيميائية تسببت فى الإصابات، ونفى أن تكون ناتجة عن مرض الطاعون، وأن هذا هو التبرير السائد والشائع بين الليبيين، واستشهد المصدر الليبى بوقوع هذه الإصابات أكثر من مرة من قبل بهذه المنطقة بالذات خلال الفترات السابقة. This led us to ask one of our reliable contact with a relative in Libya, which confirmed that the affected area is located in the vicinity of Tobruk airport, and near the old Soviet weapons caches, including leaked chemicals caused the injury, and denied that the illness resulting from the plague, and that this is the prevailing justification commonly Libyans, and Libyan cited source of these infections more than once before in this particular region during the previous periods.

على جانب آخر صرح المسئولون بالمنفذ، أن وزارة الصحة والطب البيطرى ستقوم خلال الأيام القادمة بنشر مصائد للفئران بمناطق مختلفة على الحدود وداخل المنفذ لاصطياد الفئران وتشريحها، لمعرفة هل هناك إصابات بالطاعون بينها من عدمه. On the other hand, said port officials, the Ministry of Health and Veterinary Medicine will be in the coming days to deploy traps in different regions of the mice at the border and inside the port to catch mice and the autopsy, to determine whether there are injuries, including the plague or not.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Egyptian authorities shut down the bomber, "Salloum", before fleeing from the plague,

and Libya is holding thousands of 4 Egyptian family to leave while the payment of fees

أغلقت السلطات المصرية منفذ السلوم الحدودي بين مصر وليبيا، اعتبارا من أمس، بعد الإعلان رسميا عن ظهور وباء الطاعون في منطقة طبرق الليبية، نتيجة تسرب البكتريا المسببة للمرض من بقايا مخزون الأسلحة البيولوجية الليبية في أحد معسكرات الجيش في منطقة الطرشة جنوب مدينة طبرق، التي تبعد 150 كم عن الحدود المصرية.
Egyptian authorities closed the port Salloum border crossing between Egypt and Libya, as of yesterday, after the official announcement on the appearance of plague in the region of Tobruk Libyan, as a result of leakage of bacteria causing the disease from the remains of stocks of biological weapons in one of the Libyan military camps in the region of Trcp south of the city of Tobruk, which is 150 kilometers from the Egyptian border.
يأتي ذلك فيما تسود حالة من الفوضى والارتباك الشديدين المنطقة الحدودية، في ظل توافد المصريين العاملين في ليبيا بكثافة على المنفذ الحدودي للعودة إلى مصر، خوفا من الإصابة بالطاعون، في الوقت الذي تحتجز فيه السلطات الليبية أربعة آلاف أسرة مصرية قررت العودة لمصر بعد انتشار الطاعون هناك، حيث يفترشون الأرض ويقيمون في العراء منذ أربعة أيام في الجانب الليبي.
This comes as there is a situation of utter chaos and confusion, the border area, in the influx of Egyptian workers in Libya heavily on performing the border to return to Egypt, for fear of plague, at a time when the Libyan authorities are holding thousands of Egyptian family of four decided to return to Egypt after the spread of plague there , where the land and the squatters living in the open for four days in the Libyan side.
وتطالب السلطات الليبية من المصريين العائدين سداد رسوم جديدة كانت قد أقرتها منذ ثلاثة أيام، تحت مسمى رسوم مغادرة لتنمية موارد الخزانة الليبية، دون الإعلان عنها في وسائل الإعلام هناك، وهو ما يمثل أزمة كبيرة للغالبية العظمى من المصريين، في ظل عدم امتلاك الأسر العائدة ما يكفى لسداد الرسوم المقررة، وهي 500 دينار ليبي عن الفرد، و1500 دينار عن كل أسرة.
Libyan authorities have demanded that the Egyptians returning from the new fees were approved in three days, under the name of exit fees for the development of the Libyan treasury resources, without advertising in the media there, which is a major crisis for the vast majority of Egyptians, in the absence of ownership of the returnee families enough to pay the fee, a 500 LD of the individual, and 1500 dinars for each family.
وعلاوة على ذلك، فرضت السلطات الليبية رسوم على السيارات التي تستقلها أسر مصرية بواقع 75 دينارا ليبيا عن كل سيارة ملاكي، و75 دينارا عن كل سيارة نقل تحت مسمى ضرائب جمركية.
Furthermore, the Libyan authorities have imposed fees on cars traveling at 75 Egyptian families of Libyan dinars for each car owners, and 75 dinars for each car under the pretext of the transfer of customs taxes.
وكشفت المصادر أن الأسر المصرية المحتجزة في العراء اتصلت بالسفارة المصرية في ليبيا، وبالعديد من الجهات في مصر لإنقاذهم بعد أن نفذ منهم الماء والطعام، إلا أنهم لم يتلقوا أي إجابة حتى الآن، رغم الظروف غير الإنسانية التي يعانونها.
The sources revealed that Egyptian families held in the open, contacted the Egyptian embassy in Libya, and many of the actors in Egypt for medical treatment after it had run out of them water and food, but they had not received any answer so far, despite the inhumane conditions they are enduring.
ويُخشى إصابة هؤلاء بالطاعون، نظرا لإقامتهم في منطقة يكثر بها القوارض والحشرات التي قد تكون حاملة لبكتريا الطاعون القاتل، ومن المقرر في حال السماح لها بالعبور إلى داخل الحدود المصرية أن تخضع لإجراءات حجر صحي إجباري، لحين التأكد من خلوهم من المرض القاتل.
They fear the injury plague, because of their residence in an area infested by rodents and insects that may be carriers of the deadly plague bacteria, and in the event to allow them to cross into the Egyptian border be subject to compulsory quarantine measures, while making sure they are free from the deadly disease.
وعززت السلطات الصحية في منفذ السلوم من الإجراءات الصحية الوقائية، تحسبا لانتشار الطاعون بين العابرين للحدود، فيما علمت "المصريون" أن وفدين من وزارة الصحة المصرية، ومنظمة الصحة العالمية سافرا إلى ليبيا، للوقوف على مدى انتشار وباء الطاعون هناك لوضع الخطط الصحية المناسبة للحد من انتشاره.
And strengthened the health authorities in the port SALLUM of preventive health measures, in anticipation of the spread of plague among the cross-border, Al "The Egyptians," and that the delegations from the Egyptian Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization traveled to Libya, to determine the extent of the spread of the plague are to develop appropriate health plans to reduce the spread.

Plague» threatens the borders of Egypt, the West ..

And the Ministry of Health tighten quarantine port SALLUM
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شددت وزارة الصحة إجراءات الحجر الصحي علي منفذ السلوم البري بعد وفاة شخصين وإصابة 24 آخرين بمرض الطاعون بمنطقة الطرشة - 40 كيلو جنوب مدينة طبرق الليبية علي الحدود المصرية الليبية وأكد عادل أبوزيد- وكيل وزارة الصحة بمطروح- أنه قد تم رفع حالة الطوارئ بالحجر الصحي بمنفذ السلوم لتوقيع الكشف الطبي علي جميع العائدين من ليبيا بعد ظهور مرض الطاعون بها، وقال أبوزيد لـ « الدستور» إنه متواجد حاليا بالسلوم لمتابعة الإجراءات الوقائية التي بدأت وزارة الصحة في اتخاذها للمسافرين عبر منفذ السلوم خاصة العائدين من ليبيا.
The Ministry of Health and quarantine procedures on SALLUM access road after the death of two people and injuring 24 others, the disease plague Trcp - 40 kilometers south of the Libyan city of Tobruk on the Libyan-Egyptian border, and he just AbuZayd - Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Bmatarouh - that has been lifted a state of emergency quarantine port SALLUM for a medical check on all returnees from Libya after the outbreak of the plague, said AbuZayd of «constitution» Balsalum that currently resides in the follow-up preventive action, which started in the Ministry of Health to take passengers through the port SALLUM especially returnees from Libya.



وحول الإجراءات التي اتخذها منفذ السلوم البري للقادمين من ليبيا من مصريين وعرب وأجانب نفي اللواء علي الخزرجي- مدير عام منفذ السلوم البري- ورود تعليمات رسمية له عن طريق وزارة الصحه بأي إجراءات وقائية يتم اتخاذها حول المرض وقال لـ«الدستور» ان وزارة الصحة لديها حجر صحي بمنفذ السلوم وأنها وزارة سيادية تتخذ إجراءاتها بنفسها.
And on the actions taken by the port SALLUM land from Libya, Egyptian, Arab and foreign Rear Khazraji Ali - General Manager SALLUM access road - and the role of official instructions by the Ministry of Health of any preventive action taken on the disease, saying, «constitution» The Ministry of Health has a stone SALLUM port health ministry and that it take its own sovereign.



فيما بدأت وزارة الصحة الليبية بتطعيم سكان مدينة طبرق والمناطق التي حولها ضد المرض وقامت الأجهزة الحكومية الليبية بمنع دخول وخروج الأفراد بمنطقة الطرشة التي ظهر بها المرض، وقد انتقل إلي مدينة طبرق الليبية كل من الدكتور محمد حجازي -أمين اللجنة الشعبية للصحة بليبيا «وزير الصحة»- ومصطفي عبد الجليل- أمين اللجنة الشعبية العامة للعدل «وزير الداخلية»- وأبي بكر المنصوري- أمين اللجنة الشعبية العامة للزراعة «وزير الزراعة»..
While the Ministry of Health in vaccinating the population of the Libyan city of Tobruk and regions around the disease and against the Libyan government agencies to prevent the entry and exit of individuals in which Trcp hit by the disease, has moved to the Libyan city of Tobruk, by Dr. Mohamed Hijazi - Secretary of the People's Committee for Health, Libya, «Minister of Health» - and Mustafa Abdul Jalil - Secretary of the General People's Committee for Justice «The Minister of the Interior» - and Abu Bakr al-Mansuri - Secretary of the General People's Committee for Agriculture «Minister of Agriculture» ..
لمتابعة المصابين وأسباب المرض.
For follow-up to the injured and the causes of the disease.



ويسبب بكتيريا يعرف باسم (يرسينيا بيستس) الطاعون الدملي الذي يؤدي إلي تضخم الغدد الليمفاوية ويعد الطاعون الرئوي أكثر خطورة حيث ينتشر من شخص لآخر من خلال السعال أو العطس.
Causing bacteria, known as (Yersinia Bests) bubonic plague, which leads to swollen lymph nodes is more dangerous pneumonic plague, which spreads from person to person through coughing or sneezing.



وتتمثل أعراض الطاعون بظهور نتوءات سوداء تظهر أحيانا علي أجسام ضحاياه أما الأعراض العامه فتتمثل في ارتفاع درجة الحرارة، والإعياء الشديد، والرجفة، وآلام العضلات والمفاصل، والغثيان وآلام الحلق والبلعوم، واضطرابات ذهنية وغيبوبة.
The emergence of the symptoms of plague black protrusions appear on the bodies of his victims, sometimes the symptoms are the high degree of heat, exhaustion, and a chill, and the pains of muscles and joints, nausea and sore throat, pharynx, and mental disorders and coma.
وقيء وحمي.
The vomiting and fever.
كشف وزير الصحة «حاتم الجبلي» في بيان ألقاه أمس عن أنه قد تلقي بلاغات عن انتشار حالات مصابة بمرض الطاعون علي بعد 250 كيلو متراً من الحدود المصرية مع ليبيا، وقال الوزير رداً علي بيان للنائب «محمد الصحفي» إن الطاعون يعالج بالمضادات الحيوية والنوع الذي ظهر علي الحدود هو أقل الأنواع ضرراً، وكشف الوزير عن أنه تحدث هاتفياً مع وزير الصحة الليبي الذي أخبره بأن المرض ظهر في إحدي القري وسجل 11 حالة التهاب رئوي وقد عولجت 7 حالات وخرجوا من المستشفي، وتم استدعاء إحدي الشركات المتخصصة التي قامت برش المنطقة بالكامل للقضاء علي الفئران والبراغيث، وهذه المنطقة بالذات كان قد ظهر فيها المرض من قبل عام 1977.
Minister of Health revealed «woman» in a statement yesterday that it had received reports of the spread of disease, plague-infected cases, 250 kilometers from the Egyptian border with Libya, the minister said in response to a statement by the Deputy «journalist Mohamed» The Plague treated with antibiotics and the type appeared at the borders is the least harmful species, the minister disclosed that he had spoken by telephone with the Libyan Minister of Health, who told him that the disease appeared on a village recorded 11 cases of pneumonia, 7 cases have been addressed and discharged from the hospital, was called in a specialized company that had sprayed the entire area to eliminate on rats and fleas, and this particular region had been hit by the disease by 1977.


وذكر الوزير أنه اتصل بمحافظ مرسي مطروح وشدد عليه ضرورة حرق القمامة في المحافظة تحسباً واحتياطاً ضد أي انتشار للمرض.
The minister said he contacted the Governor of Mersa Matrouh, stressed the need to maintain the burning of garbage in the anticipation and the reserve against any spread of the disease.

Minister of Health: a plague on the borders of Egypt

The entire country - Egypt - Wael Sadat: 05:16:20 PM June 16, 2009 GMT Mecca

A Minister of Health Hatem el-Gabali that he had received reports of the prevalence of plague infected with some 250 kilometers from the Egyptian border with Libya. The minister said in a statement in response to a statement to the press that the deputy Mohammed plague treated with antibiotics . And the type that occurred on the border is less harmful species.

The minister revealed that he had spoken by telephone with the Libyan Minister of Health, who told him That the disease appeared on a village and record the case of pneumonia, 11 had been addressed 7 cases and discharged from hospital was called in a specialized company that has sprayed the entire area for the eradication of rats and fleas, and this particular region had been hit by the disease by 1977.

The minister said he contacted the Governor of Marsa Matrouh . He stressed the need for burning garbage in the province in anticipation and reserve against any spread of the disease.

And sources revealed that cases of plague have been discovered After a period of spread and the number of dead and injured citizens Bmntqtin south of Tobruk, Libyan authorities have imposed serious constraints on the confidentiality of those reports

Egypt: Flu case in the Nile City, Corniche evoke

Raised the circulation of a letter on the website of the famous Elvis Book mobiles on suspicion of avian color pig building inside the compound to set the City on the road to the Corniche, panic among many citizens, especially by going to its headquarters, which contains many of the cinemas.

وعلى الفور قام اليوم السابع بإجراء اتصال هاتفى مع إدارة المبنى الإدارى للنيل سيتى، والتى أكدت أن الأمور على ما يرام والوضع عادى بالمقر الإدارى والحركة عادية جداً، نفياً ظهور أى حالة أنفلونزا خنازير بالمقر، مؤكداً أن هذه الرسالة شائعة فى ظل فزع الناس من أنفلونزا الخنازير، لافتاً إلى أنها أصبحت هاجساً لدى الكثير من الناس.

And immediately the seventh day had a telephone conversation with the management of the office building of the Nile City, which affirmed that things are going well and the regular administrative headquarters and a very unusual movement, denied any appearance of pigs at the case of influenza, saying that communication is common in the panic of the people swine flu , pointing out that it has become an obsession for many people.

Egypt: Rotary at a seminar in southern Sinai ..And former Minister of Health: avian flu more dangerous than the swine flu

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 21:13

Maj. Gen. Mohamed Hany Metwally governor of South Sinai, has been the installation of the number 2 portal to measure temperature of the passengers and the airport of Sharm el-Sheikh Taba land access for the detection of cases of suspected cases of avian and swine influenza, has also been coordinating with the Ministry of Tourism and the province to establish virus labs for analysis and one hospital NUWEBIAH Second, the Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital for suspected cases, and to facilitate the tourists to spend their holidays and their tourism without delay.

جاء ذلك خلال الندوة الموسعة للوقاية من أمراض الأنفلونزا بصفة عامة والخنازير بصفة خاصة، والذى نظمه نادى روتارى جنوب سيناء فى مدينة شرم الشيخ وحضره الدكتور محمد عوض تاج الدين وزير الصحة السابق وعضو مجلس الشورى وعدد كبير من رجال الأعمال المستثمرين والقائمين على السياحة والقيادات التنفيذية.


This was expanded during the symposium on prevention of influenza in general and in particular pigs, which was organized by the Rotary Club in the South Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and attended by Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag Eddin, Minister of Health and former member of the Shura Council and a large number of businessmen, investors and tourism operators and executive leaders.

من جانبه، أكد الدكتور محمد عوض تاج الدين وزير الصحة السابق، أن مرض أنفلونزا الطيور أخطر من أنفلونزا الخنازير، لأنه مرض فيروسى من الأمراض المعدية بين الطيور والحيوانات وبدأ ينتقل إلى الجنس البشرى وظهر عدد محدود من الإصابات وصلت إلى 40%، بينما أنفلونزا الخنازير لا تعد نسبة الوفيات 1%، لأن الفيروس ثلاثة أنواع (ABC)، أهم نوع (A) لأنه يصيب الإنسان من الطيور والخنازير وبعض أنواع الحيوانات البحرية وينتقل المرض عن طريق الاتصال المباشر بين حيوان مريض وآخر معافى ولهذا تزداد مخاطر انتقال المرض فى المزارع التى تحتوى على أعداد كبيرة من الخنازير وينتقل المرض الناتج من السعال والعطس وارتفاع درجة الحرارة، ومن أعراض الإصابة بالمرض وجود مشكلة فى التنفس وانعدام الشهية.

For his part, Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag Eddin, Minister of Health before, that the bird flu virus more dangerous than the swine flu, a disease of viral infectious diseases in birds and animals and began to move to the human race and the limited number of back injuries and reached 40%, while the swine flu did not mortality rate is 1%, because the three virus types (ABC), the most important type (A) because it affects the rights of birds and pigs, and some types of marine animals and is spread by direct contact between the animal and another patient is healthy and growing risks of transmission of the disease in the farms, which contain large numbers of pigs and the disease resulting from coughing and sneezing and a high temperature, and the symptoms of the disease and there is a problem in breathing and loss of appetite.

مضيفاً أن العاملين فى مجال تربية الخنازير ورعايتها هم أكثر الفئات عرضة للإصابة بالمرض، فى ظل وجود 35 ألف حالة مصابة بالمرض، كما أن الفيروس يعيش لمدة 3 شهور وأن نسبة الوفيات وصلت إلى 145 حالة، وعدد المصابين بالمرض وصلوا إلى 29669 حالة.

He said, adding that workers in the field of pig breeding and care are more vulnerable to the disease, in the presence of 35 thousand persons with the disease, and that the virus lives for a period of 3 months and the mortality rate reached 145 cases, and the number of people living with the disease arrived in the 29669 case.

وأشار الدكتور سامى عبد الحميد مدير الطب البيطرى بجنوب سيناء إلى أن هناك مراقبة على الأسواق، وتم غلق سوق الأسبوع بمدينة رأس سدر والثانى بأبو رديس وضبط 5317 طائراً وهدم 294 عشة وضبط 6 سيارات محملة بالدواجن الحية.

And Dr. Sami Abdul-Hamid, director of Veterinary Medicine, South Sinai, that there is control over the market, the market was shut down in the week and the second Ras Sidr Abu Rdes 5317 birds and the seizure and demolition of straw and 294 control vehicles loaded with 6 live poultry.

Egypt: 8 arrest on suspicion of bird flu in Kafr Sheikh

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 20:22


Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali
Abeer Al Zaher


Detained Kafr El-Sheikh hospital fevers 8 suspected cases of bird flu, the samples were taken and sent to a laboratory analysis of the central Ministry of Health confirmed the positive or negative sample, namely:

Ayatollah completed (5 years), and Muhammad Faraj (8 years), Mustafa Mohammed (19 years) and Mr. Youssef (a year and a half) from the villages of Sidi Salem, Randp Faraj (17 years) and Ahmed Mohammed (35 years) and Fatima Ahmed (43 years) and the victory of Ahmad ( 50 years old), what the village of Kafr El-Sheikh.

It is noteworthy that the incidence of bird flu, which reached 70 cases, all negative results were recorded only 3 of them died of a positive case No. 26 on the country's level of a woman named Saadia Ahmed Abdel-Latif Center Kulain, while the other two cases were treated immediately, because of the discovery of infected early, which led to a speedy recovery and return to their families.

الثلاثاء، 16 يونيو 2009 - 20:22


وزير الصحة حاتم الجبلى
كفر الشيخ ـ عبير زاهر


احتجز مستشفى حميات كفر الشيخ 8 حالات اشتباه بأنفلونزا الطيور، وتم أخذ العينات وإرسالها إلى معمل التحاليل المركزى بوزارة الصحة للتأكد من إيجابية أو سلبية العينة، وهم :
آية أكمل (5 سنوات) ومحمد فرج (8 سنوات) ومصطفى محمد (19 سنة) ويوسف السيد (سنة ونصف) من قرى سيدى سالم، راندة فرج (17 سنة) وأحمد محمد (35 سنة) وفاطمة أحمد (43 سنة) وانتصار أحمد (50 سنة) من قرية شنو كفر الشيخ.

الجدير بالذكر أن حالات الإصابة بأنفلونزا الطيور، والتى وصلت 70 حالة كانت نتائجها كلها سلبية ولم تسجل سوى 3 حالات إيجابية توفيت منهم الحالة رقم 26 على مستوى الجمهورية لسيدة تدعى سعدية أحمد عبد اللطيف من مركز قلين، أما

Egypt: 3 suspected cases of avian and swine at the West Lake

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 19:27


The emergence of symptoms of the disease cases
Fathi wrote Sha'baan and India just


Rashid Hospital, the detention of two new year on suspicion of swine flu, after the emergence of symptoms of the disease, their sudden rise in temperature, cough and pain in muscles and strain.

Received the Major General, Magdi Abu Amar, director of security of the lake, a notice of General Rashid hospital, according to the detention of Mr. Mohamed Ahmed (30 years) and Najla Hassan (20 years) and residing in Kafr Al-Sheikh, and were immediately detained with their cases under observation in hospital after taking a blood sample and swab their hours for analysis to indicate the extent of their injuries the disease.

As the General Hospital, explained the detention of a woman on suspicion of bird flu disease, swine flu, which sent data management quarantine Ms. Farhana Ahmed Taha (58 years) was coming to perform Umrah from the village of dead marine Habish Center Tanta sense of symptoms and disease.

The Department of Preventive Medicine and head of the disclosure by a woman shows during the detection by the high temperature, immediately transferred to the nearest hospital, the public and Minshawi booked places allocated to it and giving the drug Tamiflu and the taking of blood samples, survey of hours and sent to central laboratories indicate the extent of her illness or not, especially as it coming from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah.


ظهور أعراض المرض على الحالات
كتب شعبان فتحى وهند عادل


قام مستشفى رشيد العام باحتجاز حالتين جديدتين للاشتباه فى إصابتهما بأنفلونزا الخنازير، وذلك بعد ظهور أعراض المرض عليهما من ارتفاع مفاجئ فى درجة الحرارة وسعال وألم فى العضلات وإجهاد شديد.

تلقى اللواء مجدى أبو قمر مدير أمن البحيرة إخطاراً من مستشفى رشيد العام، يفيد باحتجاز محمد أحمد السيد (30 سنة) ونجلاء حسن (20سنة) ويقيمان بكفر الشيخ, وعلى الفور تم احتجاز الحالتين مع وضعهما تحت الملاحظة بالمستشفى بعد أخذ عينة دم ومسحة حلق منهما لتحليلها لبيان مدى إصابتهما بالمرض.

كما قام مستشفى المنشاوى العام باحتجاز سيدة للاشتباه بإصابتها بمرض أنفلونزا الخنازير، حيث أرسلت إدارة الحجر الصحى بيانات السيدة فرحانة أحمد طه (58 سنة) كانت قادمة من أداء العمرة من قرية ميت حبيش البحرية مركز طنطا وشعورها بأعراض المرض.

قامت إدارة الطب الوقائى بالتوجه للسيدة والكشف عليها وتبين أثناء الكشف عليها ارتفاع درجة حرارتها، على الفور تم نقلها لأقرب مستشفى، وهى المنشاوى العام وحجزها بالأماكن المخصصة لذلك وإعطائها عقار التاميفلو وأخذ عينة دم ومسحة حلق وإرسالها للمعامل المركزية لبيان مدى إصابتها بالمرض من عدمه، خاصة وأنها قادمة من السعودية بعد أدائها العمرة.
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Egypt: 7 detention of persons suspected of bird flu in Damanhour

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 19:21

احتجز مستشفى حميات دمنهور، 7 أشخاص للاشتباه فى إصابتهم بأنفلونزا الطيور، عقب ظهور أعراض تتشابه مع المرض عليهم من ارتفاع فى درجة الحرارة وألم فى العظام وصعوبة فى التنفس واحتقان فى الحلق.

Detained hospital fevers Damanhour, 7 people suspected of having bird flu, following the emergence of the disease with symptoms similar to a high temperature and pain in the bones and difficulty in breathing, sore throat.

تلقى اللواء مجدى أبو قمر مدير أمن البحيرة، إخطاراً من مستشفى حميات دمنهور بالاشتباه بإصابة محمود سمير رزق (6 سنوات)، حمدى عرفة (15 عاماً)، محمود عادل حامد (3 سنوات)، هيام عبد السلام (57 سنة)، محمود عبد اللطيف (5 سنوات)، على محمد أبو سرحان (عامان)، أمل السيد مبروك (29 سنة).

Major-General received the Director Majdi Abu Amar security lake, a notification from the hospital fevers suspected injury Damanhour Mahmoud Samir Rizk (6 years), Hamdy Arafa (15 years), Adel Mahmoud Hamed (3 years), Hiyam Abdul Salam (57 years), Mahmoud Abdel Latif (5 years), Mohamed Abu Sarhan (two), Mr. Mabrouk hope (29 years).

وعلى الفور تم عزل الحالات وقائياً بالمستشفى بعد أخذ عينة دم منهم لتحليلها بالمعامل المركزية بالقاهرة لبيان مدى إصابتهم بالمرض. And were immediately isolated and preventive cases in hospital after blood samples were taken for analysis, central labs in Cairo, with the extent of their disease.

وانتقلت لجنة من الطب البيطرى والصحة وقوات الأمن لمنازل المرضى لتطهيرها، وتطهير المنازل المجاورة لهم، وكذا المخالطين لهم، وأخذ عينات من الطيور الموجودة بالمنازل لفحصها. Turning to the Committee of Veterinary Medicine, health and security forces to the homes of patients cleared, clearing houses and their neighbors, as well as their contacts, and the taking of samples of domestic birds to be tested.

Egypt: Abaza warns of bird flu being transmitted between humans

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 20:23

Warned Amin Abaza, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of the spread of bird flu epidemic, which poses a serious threat to the world after the growing spread more broadly than it was five years ago.

كما حذر من احتمالات تحول الفيروس من الانتقال من الطيور إلى الإنسان للانتقال من الإنسان إلى الإنسان، مثل الوباء الذى انتشر عام 1918 وأدى إلى وفاة عشرات الملايين من البشر فى أنحاء العالم.

He also warned the chances of the virus from bird to human transmission of the human rights, such as the epidemic spread, which in 1918 led to the deaths of tens of millions of people around the world.


وأكد وزير الزراعة - فى كلمة ألقاها نيابة عنه الدكتور أيمن أبو حديد رئيس مركز البحوث الزراعية فى الجلسة الافتتاحية لورشة عمل دولية عقدت بالقاهرة تحت عنوان "الدروس المستفادة من الخبرات الأمريكية للتخلص من الطيور النافقة باستخدام الكمبوست فى إنتاج الأسمدة العضوية" - أن الحكومة المصرية تتخذ حاليا سياسة شفافة فى التعامل مع المرض، حيث تعلن بشفافية كل المعلومات التى تتعلق بتفشى المرض بين الطيور وحالات العدوى بين الأفراد.

The Minister of Agriculture - In a speech delivered on his behalf, Dr. Ayman Abu Hadid head of the Center for Agricultural Research in the opening session of an international workshop held in Cairo under the title "Lessons learned from the experiences of America to dispose of dead birds Alkambost use in the production of organic fertilizer" - the Egyptian government is currently taking a transparent policy in dealing with the disease, which declares all the information transparency regarding the outbreak of disease among birds and cases of infection between individuals.


وشارك فى الندوة الدكتور فتحى سعد محافظ 6 أكتوبر والمستشار عدلى حسين محافظ القليوبية والدكتور حسين منصور رئيس المكتب الزراعى بواشنطن والخبيرة الأمريكية لورى ميللر والخبير الأمريكى والتر ملبرى و100 من الخبراء ومربى الدواجن وممثلى الاتحاد العام لمنتحى الدواجن بمصر.

Participated in the symposium, Dr. Fathi Saad, Governor of October 6 and Chancellor Qaliubiya Governor Adli Hussein, Dr. Hussein Mansour, who heads the agricultural office in Washington and the American expert Laurie Miller and the U.S. Walter Mlbery and 100 experts and representatives of poultry farmers and the General Federation of Menthy poultry in Egypt.

Egypt: The high number of flu cases to 26 pigs [Swine Flu]

Ministry of Health announced Wednesday afternoon by Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health on behalf of three new cases of infection with swine flu, bringing the number of cases infected with swine flu to 26 cases. وسنوافيكم بالتفاصيل. We will provide you with the details.

WHO probes report of bubonic plague in Libyan town

Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:06pm BST

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have reported an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Mediterranean coastal town of Tubruq, and the World Health Organisation was sending a team to investigate, a WHO official said Tuesday.

The cases -- approximately 16 to 18 have been reported -- would be the first in more than two decades in Libya of the disease known in medieval times as the Black Death, according to John Jabbour, a Cairo-based emerging diseases specialist at WHO.

"It is reported as bubonic plague," Jabbour said, adding WHO still didn't have "a full picture" of the situation.

"It is officially reported by Libya... Tomorrow, WHO is deploying a mission to Libya to investigate the whole situation, to see how many of the cases are confirmed, or not confirmed."

He said preliminary information from Libyan authorities showed 16 to 18 reported cases including one death, and that Tripoli had asked for assistance from the global health body.

Bubonic plague, noticeable by black bumps that sometimes develop on victims' bodies, causes severe vomiting and fever and still kills around 100 to 200 people annually worldwide. It can kill within days if not treated with antibiotics.

A plague epidemic of 1347 to 1351 was one of the deadliest recorded in human history, killing about 75 million people, according to some estimates, including more than a third of Europe's population.

That pandemic was thought to have begun in Asia, then spread into the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Tubruq, where the new cases were reported, is approximately 125 km from the Egyptian border and was the scene of previous plague cases decades ago, Jabbour said. Egypt, already fighting to contain an outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus, said it had no reported cases of plague.

Rodents carry plague, which is virtually impossible to wipe out and moves through the animal world as a constant threat to humans.

Globally the World Health Organisation reports about 1,000 to 3,000 plague cases each year, with most in the last five years occurring in Madagascar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States sees about 10 to 20 cases each year.

(Reporting by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Matthew Jones)
Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:06pm BST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have reported an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Mediterranean coastal town of Tubruq, and the World Health Organisation was sending a team to investigate, a WHO official said Tuesday.

The cases -- approximately 16 to 18 have been reported -- would be the first in more than two decades in Libya of the disease known in medieval times as the Black Death, according to John Jabbour, a Cairo-based emerging diseases specialist at WHO.

"It is reported as bubonic plague," Jabbour said, adding WHO still didn't have "a full picture" of the situation.

"It is officially reported by Libya... Tomorrow, WHO is deploying a mission to Libya to investigate the whole situation, to see how many of the cases are confirmed, or not confirmed."

He said preliminary information from Libyan authorities showed 16 to 18 reported cases including one death, and that Tripoli had asked for assistance from the global health body.

Bubonic plague, noticeable by black bumps that sometimes develop on victims' bodies, causes severe vomiting and fever and still kills around 100 to 200 people annually worldwide. It can kill within days if not treated with antibiotics.

A plague epidemic of 1347 to 1351 was one of the deadliest recorded in human history, killing about 75 million people, according to some estimates, including more than a third of Europe's population.

That pandemic was thought to have begun in Asia, then spread into the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Tubruq, where the new cases were reported, is approximately 125 km from the Egyptian border and was the scene of previous plague cases decades ago, Jabbour said. Egypt, already fighting to contain an outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus, said it had no reported cases of plague.

Rodents carry plague, which is virtually impossible to wipe out and moves through the animal world as a constant threat to humans.

Globally the World Health Organisation reports about 1,000 to 3,000 plague cases each year, with most in the last five years occurring in Madagascar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States sees about 10 to 20 cases each year.

(Reporting by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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Egypt: 6 Suspected of BF in Damanhour

6 people detained on suspicion of having bird flu in the lake

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 14:39

Detained hospital fevers Damanhour, 6 cases of suspected bird flu, following the emergence of the disease with symptoms similar to a high temperature and pain in the bones and difficulty in breathing, sore throat.

Major-General received the Director Majdi Abu Amar security lake, a notification from the hospital fevers suspected injury Damanhour Abdullah Abdel-Hakim Awad (two years) and a resident Baldlnecat Attiyat Mr. Aboutahir (47 years) resident Bdinmhor Ashour Ashraf Riaz (23 years) and the triumph of resident Mahmudiya Labib (30 years ) Aldlnecat and Riham Ramadan (13 years) resident in Kom Hamada, Mahmoud Abdul-Ati (21 years) resident Bdinmhor.

And were immediately isolated and preventive cases in hospital after blood samples were taken for analysis, central labs in Cairo, with the extent of their disease.

Turning to the Committee of Veterinary Medicine, health and security forces to the homes of patients cleared, clearing houses and their neighbors, as well as contact them and take samples of domestic birds to be tested.

الثلاثاء، 16 يونيو 2009 - 14:39


وزير الصحة حاتم الجبلى البحيرة ـ شعبان فتحى


احتجز مستشفى حميات دمنهور، 6 حالات للاشتباه فى إصابتهم بأنفلونزا الطيور، عقب ظهور أعراض تتشابه مع المرض عليهم من ارتفاع فى درجة الحرارة وألم فى العظام وصعوبة فى التنفس واحتقان فى الحلق.

تلقى اللواء مجدى أبو قمر مدير أمن البحيرة، إخطاراً من مستشفى حميات دمنهور بالاشتباه بإصابة عبد الله عبد الحكيم عوض (سنتان) مقيم بالدلنجات وعطيات السيد أبو طاهر (47 سنة) مقيمة بدمنهور وأشرف رياض عاشور (23 سنة) مقيم بالمحمودية وانتصار لبيب (30 سنة) الدلنجات وريهام رمضان (13 سنة) مقيمة بكوم حمادة ومحمود عادل عبد العاطى (21 سنة) مقيم بدمنهور.

وعلى الفور تم عزل الحالات وقائياً بالمستشفى بعد أخذ عينة دم منهم لتحليلها بالمعامل المركزية بالقاهرة لبيان مدى إصابتهم بالمرض.
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Egypt: Mahala - 3 suspected of BF

Been detained Bhmyat Mahala
3 suspected bird flu infected meeting Sunday attended by


Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 13:00

Mahala held hospital admitted 3 new cases of suspected infected with avian influenza were confined to the places allocated to it for sure when the extent of illness or not.

حيث تم احتجاز عبد الرحمن فتحى يوسف (15 سنة) طالب من قرية كفردمرو مركز المحلة ومحمد فتحى يوسف البسطويسى 7( سنوات) تلميذ من كفردمرو ونزرا عبد العاطى عبد الغفار (11 سنة) تلميذة من منطقة الرجبى بأول المحلة.

Where Abdel Rahman was detained Fathi Yusuf (15 years) students from the village of Mahala Kferdmro Center, and Mohamed Fathi Youssef Bastawisi 7 (years) and students from a tiny Kferdmro Abdulati Abdul Ghaffar (11 years old) pupils from the rugby first place.

تم أخذ عينة دم ومسحة حلق من المرضى وإرسالها للمعامل المركزية الخاصة بوزارة الصحة، كما تم إعطاؤهم عقار التايمفلو.

Blood samples were taken and the melancholy hours of the patients and sent to labs central Ministry of Health, has also been given the drug Altaymflo.

صرح بذلك الدكتور عصام عثمان مدير إدارة الطب الوقائى بمديرية الصحة بالغربية. Said Dr. Essam Othman, Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Directorate of Health meeting Sunday attended.

Libya: death of a citizen and wounded 11 others in one of the types of bacteria causing the plague village

The death of a citizen and wounded 11 others in one of the types of bacteria causing the plague village, south of Tobruk Trcp
2009-06-14

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Mohamed Alhijazi Secretary of General People's Committee
The disease under control, healing of this type of bacteria is not dangerous

In a telephone interview with Korina from the place of his medical status of the city of Tobruk Batnan inquire about the news that affects some people with confirmed plague brother Mohammed Alhijazi Secretary General People's Committee Environment 12 injured residents from the village of Trcp 30 km south of Tobruk, said that the cases infected with the bacteria causing the disease " Plague "- but the types of less serious - and good health of the injured after a laboratory analysis to determine the type of infection the central reference lab in the city of Benghazi, and give the necessary treatment.

The Brother "Alhijazi" that, after the laboratory tests show that the bacteria causing the disease, low-risk, adding that he had been disbursed for treatment of cases which came to the Center confirming that the isolate was identical to the cases of healing and that is reassuring and the disease is completely under control and is expected to leave these cases to the hospital within three days. He pointed out that there was a field hospital, which found the development of the region where the bacteria.

According to Brother, "Alhijazi" that the state and one death were reported prior to laboratory analysis, to find out why, and given the necessary treatment - in the case of 12 entered Batnan Medical Center.

He said that the disease plague, caused by several types of virus .. and make sure after the tests by the laboratory that the virus has been found in those cases mentioned above is one of the simplest and the least dangerous species, which can be controlled by treatment provided by the secretariat of the General People's Committee for Health and Environment.
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INFLUENZA A (H1N1): ANIMAL HEALTH (14), EU PREPAREDNESS, EGYPT

Published Date15-JUN-2009
SubjectPRO/AH> Influenza A (H1N1): animal health (14), EU preparedness, Egypt
[1]
Date: Mon 15 Jun 2009
Source: EFSA website [edited]
<http://ec.europa.eu/food/animal/diseases/influenzaAH1N1/docs/Conclusions_AH1N1_090609.pdf>

Brainstorming of scientists, risk assessors and risk managers on the
novel A(H1N1) influenza virus at the human animal interface; "What
needs to be done in Europe in the next months?;"
Brussels, 9 Jun 2009
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Conclusions of the Commission assisted by EFSA and ECDC.

1. It is expected that the novel influenza virus A(H1N1) will
continue to circulate and spread in the human population in Europe in
the coming months, in particular in autumn and winter.


2. Probable human-to-pig transmission of the novel virus has been
described on one occasion in Canada, and experiments in Europe have
shown that the pigs are susceptible to the novel virus [The
human-to-pig transmission in Canada has been put in doubt; see 20090615.2215. - Mod.AS].

3. Given the continued spread of this novel virus in the human
population, the risk of it entering pig farms in Europe will,
therefore, increase in the next months.


4. From an animal health perspective, current evidence from the
single field outbreak and findings from experimental studies suggest
that this novel virus in its current form is unlikely to cause more
significant health problems in pigs than those already seen by the
swine influenza viruses circulating in pigs in Europe, which is
self-limiting infection of the respiratory tract with some morbidity
but generally leading to uneventful recovery.

5. From a human health perspective, the direct and indirect
human-to-human routes of transmission will continue to pose the
highest risk and account for all human infections. A sustained
circulation of this virus in pigs may pose an additional risk for
transmission to humans for people in close contact with infected pigs.


6. However, swine influenza is not a food-borne zoonosis. Moreover,
there is no evidence suggesting that this novel virus behaves in a
different way from the other swine influenza viruses and spreads to
humans via food containing pork or pork products. With regard to
infection of pigs via feeding, account should be taken of the
intra-species feeding ban. This is also supported by the initial data
on experimental infection of piglets that have become available in
recent weeks, indicating infection of only the respiratory tract and
no other tissues and absence of detectable viraemia.
Therefore, the
recommendations issued by the relevant European and international
organizations adequately address the issue of food safety in relation
to influenza.

7. The measures to be taken on pig farms addressing human-to-pig
transmission, pig-to-pig transmission and pig-to-human transmission
should be proportionate to
: 1) the risk posed by pigs in the
transmission of the novel virus to humans, if any, compared to the
role played by human-to-human transmission, 2) the severity of
disease in animals and humans, and 3) risk factors in humans.

8. The most important measure for reducing the risk of human-to-pig
transmission is the implementation of bio-security measures on pig
farms aimed in particular at reducing the risk that people infected
with the novel influenza are in contact with pigs.

9. However, over and above the seasonal vaccination against influenza
in human, vaccination of staff working in contact with pigs to
protect against the novel virus, when specific vaccines are
available, should be considered by authorities as a possible
additional measure to reduce the risk of virus circulation between
humans and pigs
.

10. Vigilance on possible circulation of the novel virus in pig farms
should be enhanced.

11. Surveillance for the novel virus in pig farms should: 1) in the
context of risk management, focus on timely detection of virus on
farms with a known risk of human-to-pig transmission; and 2) in the
context of risk assessment and research, be aimed at improving our
understanding of the risk of possible circulation of virus in pig
farms and its possible impact on public health and also monitor its
further evolution.

12. If surveillance activities based on investigations and sampling
are carried out in pig farms in order to detect the novel virus, they
should be focused on pigs that potentially have been exposed to
infected humans and those showing respiratory signs.

13. The data generated by the surveillance/monitoring activities of
the ESNIP project have been very informative and useful, and the
activities should be continued and intensified.

14. The veterinary and public health authorities in the Member States
should ensure that adequate information is provided to pig farmers,
private veterinarians, and general practitioners on the prevention
and surveillance measures above and that the veterinary laboratories
have the necessary diagnostic capability.
15. It is too early at this stage to envisage a role of vaccines in
the prevention and control of the novel virus in pigs.


16. In case novel virus is detected on a pig farm, proportionate
measures to protect humans from this occupational risk should be
implemented, particularly for persons most likely to experience
severe disease.

17. Measures to be taken on pig farms in the next months should,
however, be flexible, allowing an adaptation to a possible further
evolution of the virus and to its transmission patterns.

18. It is highly desirable that in the EU the initiatives of all
stakeholders, including risk assessors, risk managers and
researchers, be coordinated so that joint efforts result in a more
efficient achievement of the objectives. This should in particular
include information exchange on collection and analysis of data,
identification of gaps for research, and formal risk assessment.

19. The guidelines that the relevant international organizations are
preparing on biosecurity and surveillance on pig farms will help to
shape the EU response to this potential threat.

--
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
[The other documents presented or produced during the "brainstorming
meeting" in Brussels on 9 Jun 2009 can be accessed online
at
<http://ec.europa.eu/food/animal/diseases/influenzaAH1N1/index_en.htm>.
The presentations include, among other things, animal experiments
with the new virus (Pathogenesis and Transmission Studies) carried
out by the EU, Canada and the USA. - Mod.AS]

******
[2]
Date: Mon 15 Jun 2009
From: Diaa Elyan <diaa.elyan.ctr.eg@med.navy.mil>

We have learned that different influenza A viruses known to cause
disease in humans have recently been isolated/detected in pigs; e.g.
China [H3N2, H5N1], Indonesia [H5N1], Canada [H1N1]. Interestingly,
most of those cases were either classified as either mild infections
or even have passed without significant illness.


To better understand the implications of these findings, researchers
around the globe have engaged in performing detailed surveillance in
pigs in locations where all or some of the said strains are reported. Scientists have also expressed interest in conducting some lab
experiments to understand the probability of virus genetic
exchange/reassortment and possible pathogenicity and the role of pigs
as mixing vessels/pathways for emergence of a potential pandemic
strain.


Have those researchers who isolated/detected the above mentioned
influenza virus isolates in pigs published the genetic analysis and
discussed their relatedness to human and/or avian strains?

--
Communicated by:Diaa Elyan
CTR EG NAMRU3, Cairo, Egypt

<diaa.elyan.ctr.eg@med.navy.mil>

[A valid question, especially within the One Health concept. Some of
the sought information is included in the presentations discussed in
item 1. Responses will be welcomed.

It will also be interesting to note whether NAMRU3 has been involved
in testing pigs for influenza A viruses in Egypt. - Mod.AS]


*****
[3]

Date: 12 Jun 2009
Source: EarthTimes
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/272912,egypt-hunts-last-pigs-as-three-new-swine-flu-cases-confirmed.html>
Egypt hunts last pigs as three new swine flu cases confirmed
----------------------------------------
As the number of confirmed cases of the A(H1N1), or swine flu, virus
continued to climb in Egypt, the government vowed to redouble its
efforts to hunt down the country's last surviving pigs. Assistant
Health Minister Nasr al-Sayid on Friday confirmed three new cases of
the disease, which the World Health Organization on Thursday labelled
a global pandemic.

Al-Sayid said the three new cases had come from Canada, Sweden, and
the United States, and that they had been taken to hospital for
isolation and treatment, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency
(MENA) reported Friday.

The Ministry of Health said the three cases brought the total number
of confirmed cases of swine flu in Egypt to 15.

As new confirmed infections continued to trickle in, the Egyptian
government redoubled its efforts to hunt down the country's last
remaining pigs.

Hamid Samaha, the head of Egypt's General Authority for Veterinary
Services, on Friday said government inspectors had found two
surviving pigs in Giza, just across the river from Cairo. The pigs
were culled on the spot, MENA reported.

Samaha said the government had so far killed 15,000 pigs, and that it
expected to kill all remaining Egyptian swine by the end of next week.

He added the government would vaccinate 60 million fowl as part of
its campaign against the related H5N1, or bird flu, virus.

Last week, a four-year-old girl from the Nile Delta province of
Daqahliya became the 27th person to die of bird flu in Egypt. Hers
was the 72nd confirmed case of that virus in the country, MENA said.
--
Communicated by:
Pacific Veterinary List
<pacvet@lyris.spc.int>

Monday, June 15, 2009

Mountain confirms that Egypt is free from rinderpest disease

Mountain confirms that Egypt is free from rinderpest disease
دكتور حاتم الجبلى وزير الصحة والسكان Dr. Hatem el-Gabali and Minister of Health and Population

أكد الدكتور حاتم الجبلى وزير الصحة والسكان خلو مصر تماما من مرض الطاعون. Dr. Hatem el-Gabali and Minister of Health and Population, Egypt is free of the disease completely plague.

وأشار فى تصريح خاص للتليفزيون المصرى الى ان الوزارة شددت الاجراءات الصحية على الحدود مع ليبيا التى تم اكتشاف حالات للمرض بها. He told Egyptian television that the ministry had tightened health on the border with Libya, which was discovered by the cases of the disease.

واوضح الجبلى لمراسل التليفزيون المصرى محمد حلمى ان وحدات الطب الوقائى على الحدود تتعاون مع القوات المسلحة لمنع دخول اى حالات مصابة الى الاراضى المصرية. The mountain of the TV reporter Mohamed Hilmi said Egyptian and preventive medicine units at the border is cooperating with the armed forces to prevent the entry of any infected cases to the land of Egypt.

وقال الجبلى فى تصريحه انه اتصل هاتفيا صباح الاثنين بوزير الصحة الليبي محمد محمود حجازي الذى طمأنه على الموقف بالنسبة لاكتشاف حالات إصابة بمرض الطاعون، وأشار الى انه توجد فى ليبيا 12 حالة مصابة بالطاعون، تم شفاء 7 منهم، و4 لا يزالون تحت العلاج ووضعهم مستقر بينما توفيت حالة واحدة. The mountain in the statement that he contacted by telephone Monday morning, Health Minister Mohammed Mahmoud Hegazi, who assured him of the situation for the detection of cases of disease, plague, and pointed out that, in the case of Libya, 12 infected with plague, 7 of them have recovered, and 4 are still under treatment and their stable while one case died.

وأضاف الوزير الليبى أن المرض موجود في قرية على بعد 50 كيلومترا من الحدود المصرية، وهى القرية التى حدث فيها المرض من قبل عامى 1977 و 1984. The Libyan minister added that the disease exists in the village, about 50 kilometers from the Egyptian border, the village where the disease from the years before 1977 and 1984.

وأوضح الجبلى أنه عرض المساعدة على وزير الصحة الليبى الذى أشار إلى أنه تم رش المنطقة رشا كثيفا فيما يتم متابعة الموقف، وتم عمل تقصى وبائي لهذه المنطقة وهناك حاليا وفد من المكتب الاقليمي لمنظمة الصحة العالمية للتقصى الوبائى. The mountain that the offer of assistance to the Health Minister of Libya, who pointed out that the area was sprayed with heavy bribes are to monitor the situation, was the work of finding and endemic to this area and there are currently a delegation from the regional office of the World Health Organization to investigate the epidemic.

وقال الجبلى "نحن من جانبنا لا بد أن نأخذ حذرنا ولا نترك الأمور هكذا، فأولا حدث اتصال مع القوات المسلحة بحكم تواجدها فى هذه المنطقة، وبدأت تساعدنا فى عمليات رش واسعة النطاق، كما بعثنا لجنة من الطب الوقائى على الحدود لكى نرى ما هى الاجراءات التى يجب ان تتخذ". The mountain, "We on our part, we must take warning and not let such things, First, there has been contact with the armed forces by virtue of their presence in this region, and began spraying operations will help us in the wide-ranging, and sent a committee of Preventive Medicine at the border to see what procedures are in should be taken. "

وأضاف انه اتصل بمحافظ مطروح ليعطيه التوجيهات المفروض اتخاذها فى هذه المرحلة، واهمها التخلص من القمامة وحرقها بأقصى سرعة. He added that he contacted the Governor is supposed to give directions to take at this stage, notably the disposal of garbage and burning at full speed.

وأوضح أن مصر لم يظهر بها إصابات بهذا المرض منذ عام 1947 وأن الإجراءات المطبقة على منفذ السلوم تحول دون أية إصابات لدخول المرض، مشيرا إلى أنه بعد الاشتباه فى ظهور حالات فى ليبيا يتم متابعة الموقف مع الجانب الليبى للاطمئنان على الوضع هناك. He pointed out that Egypt did not show the injury in this disease since 1947 and that the procedures applied to the outlet SALLUM prevent any injuries to the entry of the disease, pointing out that after the appearance of suspected cases in Libya is to monitor the situation with the Libyan side to check on the situation there.

وأضاف أن مرض الطاعون هو مرض يصيب الحيوانات وينتقل إلى الإنسان عن طريق القوارض والبراغيث ويتم سنويا تسجيل ما بين ألف إلى ثلاثة آلاف إصابة بالمرض على مستوى العالم، لافتا إلى أن فترة حضانة المرض ما بين يوم إلى سبعة أيام ويتم فحصها بأخذ مسحة من الحلق أو عينة من السائل داخل الغدد الليمفاوية وفحصها. He added that the plague is a disease that affects animals and transmitted to humans by rodents and fleas is an annual record of A to three thousands of the disease in the world, pointing out that the incubation period between the day-to-seven days and are being tested by taking swab samples from the throat or of the fluid within the lymph nodes and examined.

وأوضح أن المرض يمكن أن ينتقل من إنسان إلى إنسان إذا كان المصاب يعانى من الالتهاب الرئوى الناتج عن الإصابة بمرض الطاعون وذلك عن طريق الرزاز المتطاير أثناء كحة المصاب كما تنتقل العدوى من خلال التلامس مع جلد المصاب فى حالة وجود جروح أو خدوش. He explained that the disease can be transmitted from man to man if the patient suffered from severe respiratory disease caused by the plague, by flying Razaz injured during cough and infect through contact with the skin of the injured in case of wounds or scratches.

وأكد أن العدوى من إنسان إلى إنسان نادرة الحدوث ولكنها قد تحدث وعادة تتم العدوى عن طريق البراغيث التى تحمل الميكروب من الفئران، وقال إن العلاج يتم باستخدام العقاقير والمضادات الحيوية كالتتراسيكيلين والبنسلين وغيرها. The infection from man to man is rare but may occur and are usually infected by fleas carrying the strain of mice, said that the treatment is the use of drugs and antibiotics, penicillin and Kalttrashikilin and others.

واختتم الجبلى تصريحاته بقوله ان الأمر بالنسبة لنا مستقر ونحن نتابعه عن قرب. The remarks by saying that the mountain is stable for us, and we are following closely.

وكان وزير الصحة الليبى محمد محمود حجازي قد أكد الأحد أنه تم اتخاد اجراءات عاجلة لمحاصرة اصابات بمرض الطاعون اكتشفت في منطقة البطنان شرق الجماهيرية الليبية خلال اليومين الماضيين عن طريق المختبرات المعملية. The Minister of Health Mohammed Mahmoud Hijazi had said Sunday that he was actually urgent action to curb the disease, injuries plague was discovered in the area east of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Batnan over the past two days by the laboratory laboratory.

وقال حجازي إنه تم توفير الأمصال الواقية والمضادة لهذا المرض الذي ينتشر عن طريق القوارض ومن ثم البراغيث الناقلة للفيروس الى الكائنات الأخرى، مشيرا إلى أن الحالات التي تم تشخيصها في البطنان هي الآن تحت سيطرة الأطباء المزودين بامكانيات كفيلة بمعالجتها وضمان الوقاية من انتقالها إلى غيرها. The diplomat said that it had been the provision of protective vaccines and countermeasures to this disease that is spread by rodent fleas and then spread the virus to other organisms, indicating that the cases were diagnosed in Batnan are now under the control of physicians capable of addressing potential suppliers and to ensure the prevention of transmission to others.

وأضاف أن شركة انجليزية تم التعاقد معها للقضاء على القوارض باشرت عملها في هذا الخصوص واتخذت كافة التدابير اللازمة والسريعة في المنطقة الغربية وهي الآن تقوم بنفس الجهد وبخطوات سريعة لانهاء عملها في المنطقة الشرقية للوقاية مما تسببه القوارض من أوبئة بالقضاء على القوارض نفسها. He added that the English company had been contracted to eliminate the rodents began its work in this regard and has taken all necessary measures and fast in the western region and is now doing the same effort and a fast pace to end its work in the eastern region, which for the prevention of epidemics caused by rodent eradication of rodents themselves.

وأكد حجازي إصابة 12 مواطنا من قرية الطرشة 30 كم جنوبي طبرق بالبكتيريا المسببة لمرض "الطاعون" ولكنها من الأنواع الأقل خطورة وأن صحة المصابين جيدة بعد إجراء التحاليل المعملية وتحديد نوع الإصابة بالمعمل المركزي بمدينة بنغازي وإعطاء العلاج اللازم. The injury Hijazi 12 Trcp citizen from the village 30 km south of Tobruk, the bacteria causing the disease "plague", but less serious types of health and living well after the laboratory analysis and to identify the type of infection in the Benghazi Central laboratory and give the necessary treatment.

وأوضح أنه سبق لهذا النوع من البكتيريا أن ظهر في هذه المنطقة مرتين من قبل عام 1977 وكذلك 1984. He explained that he had previously for this type of bacteria that appeared in the area twice before in 1977 and 1984.

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Egypt: 5 Articles (excerpts)

[Please go to the link for the full article]

"Veterinarians": Government Influenza ambushes resisting police

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 20:38
...Veterinarians movement issued a statement today, without borders, demanding that veterinarians commissioned under fierce attack by Egypt from the various animal diseases, he noted....

...He added. Sami Taha, that the assignment is the duty of government to a long career working for 180 years and especially this critical period, which need to be 8 thousand veterinarian, in addition to the existing number in the service of Veterinary Medicine, to work by blocking the wall that the Government set up the mass graves in the pigs, and pandemic flu virus...
http://tinyurl.com/lyhb5r


Publication of the mountain is the wrath of the health workers Port
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 20:34
The woman and the wrath of the Minister of Health staff of the Directorate of Health Affairs in Port Said and all administrative employees, which includes raising the high state of alert in all hospitals of the Ministry of Health, and the prohibition of the publication a final failure of the bodies of doctors and nurses leave, whatever the reasons, besides the continuity of work throughout the week including the Fridays and public holidays. ..

...Health workers stressed the need to consider the minister re-publication, and they will resort to strike action in the case of the publication and its sustainability. ..
http://tinyurl.com/l2qkjq


Symposium: Totnt swine flu in Egypt
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 20:23
Contrary to what was announced by Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Sunday, that the swine flu, however, serious, and d described. Nabila Shaker Deguedy Chief of the Division of Veterinary Medicine of the National Research Center, swine flu in human beings as highly lethal, and it has become endemic in Egypt will not come out years ago many. ...
http://tinyurl.com/km5l68



Panic at the sites of oil for fear of swine flu
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 19:59
It was learned today that the seventh President of Sousse Sharif Rasheed Albrools companies today is a visit to the site in Beheira rational status to talk about the working methods of the center of disease prevention, and reassure the workers, where there is a state of fear and panic, especially after the issuance of the instructions of President of the Company to grant workers, who show no symptoms mandatory sick leave, especially those returning from abroad, to make sure that no infected with swine flu "virus that a 1."
http://tinyurl.com/nxewtg


Medical Association has complained to the governor of Kafr El-Sheikh clean
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 19:00
http://tinyurl.com/msa5kt

Egypt: Plague in Libya, and "health" is preparing procedures and preventive

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 19:12

مستشفيات الوجه البحرى ومرسى مطروح والعلمين وعلى الحدود، للتصدى لخطر انتشار وباء الطاعون قبل دخوله إلى مصر عن طريق ليبيا.

Ministry of Health announced on Monday afternoon, it was in the process of preparing a set of preventive measures in hospitals, especially hospitals and Lower Egypt, Marsa Matrouh and El Alamein, and on the border, to address the threat of the spread of the plague before entering Egypt via Libya.

يأتى هذا فى ظل تزايد المخاوف بمحافظة مطروح، وخاصة على الحدود المصرية الغربية مع ليبيا، عقب ظهور وباء الطاعون جنوب مدينة طبرق العلى بعد 150 كيلو من الحدود المصرية و1500 كيلو عن العاصمة الليبية طرابلس، وقد أكدت مصادر صحفية ليبية اكتشاف المرض بعد فترة طويلة توفى خلالها وأصيب عدد من المواطنين بمنطقتين متقاربتين جنوب طبرق بـ 20 كيلو متراً فى ظل تكتم شديد من السلطات الليبية، حيث انتقل اليوم الدكتور عادل أبو زيد وكيل وزارة الصحة بمطروح، يصاحبه فريق طبى متخصص إلى منفذ السلوم البرى لاتخاذ الإجراءات الوقائية تحسباً لدخول أى مريض يحمل المرض من الأراضى الليبية إلى الأراضى المصرية عبر المنفذ.

This comes under the province is growing concerns, especially on the Egyptian border with Libya, the West, following the emergence of plague south of the city of Tobruk Ali after 150 kilometers from the Egyptian border, and 1500 kilometers from the Libyan capital Tripoli has been confirmed by press sources Libyan discovery of the disease, died after a long period during which A number of people close to each other south of Tobruk Bmntqtin b 20 kilometers under the discretion of the great Libyan authorities, which today moved, Dr. Adel Abu-Zeid and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Bmatarouh, accompanied by a medical team dedicated to implementing land SALLUM to take preventive action in anticipation of the entry of any of the patients carry the disease Libyan territory to the territory through the Egyptian port.


كما أرسلت وزارة الصحة فريقين على أعلى مستوى طبى وفى طريقهم من القاهرة إلى السلوم، كما تقوم الوزارة بإنشاء معمل تحاليل ميدانى ومعزل على هضبة السلوم بالقرب من المنفذ لاستقبال واحتجاز أى حالات يتم اكتشافها، بالإضافة إلى وجود 7 سيارات إسعاف بمدينة السلوم فى حال استعداد تام لأى طارئ.

The Ministry of Health sent two teams at the highest level in a medical way from Cairo to SALLUM, and the ministry to establish a field laboratory and isolation on a hill near the port SALLUM for the reception and detention of any cases being discovered, in addition to the presence of 7 ambulances in SALLUM fully prepared in case of any emergency.


وأكدت مصادر ليبية لليوم السابع، وجود حالة من الذعر بين الليبيين بمدينة طبرق منذ الأسبوع الماضى، كما تتردد هناك إشاعات حول غلق الحدود المصرية مع ليبيا، وأشارت المصادر أن المرض ظهر منذ أكثر من شهرين ولم يتم اكتشافه إلا مؤخرا، بعد أن أصيب عدد من المواطنين بمنطقة بطرونة 30 كيلو جنوب مدينة طبرق بمرض غامض وفارقوا الحياة بعد نقلهم لمركز البطنان الطبى، وبعد ذلك حدثت عدة وفيات لم يعرف سببها خلال الأسبوع الماضى، ونقل ثلاثة أفراد من أسرة واحدة من منطقة الطرشة بالقرب من منطقة بطرونة توفى أحدهم وما زال الآخران فى العناية الفائقة.

The sources said a Libyan for the seventh day, the existence of a state of panic among the Libyan city of Tobruk since last week, there are also rumors about the closure of the Egyptian border with Libya, the sources pointed out that the disease appeared in more than two months have not been discovered only recently, after a number of citizens Region Boutronp 30 kilometers south of the city of Tobruk, a mysterious disease and died after being rushed to Medical Center Batnan, and then there were several, and mortality did not know the cause during the last week, and the transfer of three members of one family from the area near the Trcp Boutronp of whom died and the other two remain in the intensive care unit .


وأكدت أيضا أن وزارة الصحة الليبية تبذل جهوداً كبيرة فى مدينة طبرق والمناطق التى حولها لتطويق مرض الطاعون الذى ظهر فى المنطقة، وسجلت فيه وفاة حالتين و24 حالة تتلقى العلاج بالمستشفى، كما بدأت فى تطعيم سكان المنطقة ومنع الدخول أو الخروج من المنطقة الموبوءة.

It also confirmed that the Libyan Ministry of Health is making great efforts in the city of Tobruk, and the areas around it to contain the disease plague, which appeared in the region, which recorded two deaths and 24 cases receiving treatment in hospital, have also begun to vaccinate the population of the region and prevent the entry or exit from the affected area.


وصرحت مصادر ليبية بوجود تحركات على أعلى مستوى من السلطات الليبية لمحاصرة الوباء وعزل المنطقة المصابة، وأن كلاً من الدكتور محمد حجازى أمين (وزير) اللجنة الشعبية العامة للصحة ومصطفى عبد الجليل أمين اللجنة الشعبية العامة للعدل واللواء عبد الفتاح يونس أمين اللجنة الشعبية العامة للأمن العام، إضافة إلى أبو بكر المنصور أمين اللجنة الشعبية العامة للزراعة، متواجدون حالياً فى طبرق للمتابعة عن قرب.

The sources said the presence of Libyan moves at the highest level of the Libyan authorities to curb the epidemic and to isolate the affected area, and both Dr. Mohamed Hegazy Secretary (Minister) the General People's Committee for Health and Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Secretary of General People's Committee for Justice and Major General Abdul-Fattah Younis Secretary General People's Committee for Public Security, In addition to Abu Bakr al-Mansour Secretary General People's Committee for Agriculture, currently exist in Tubruk up close.

Egypt: Menoufia - Poultry Farm Worker Suspected of BF

Reservation is suspected infected with bird flu Menoufia
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 20:13

Tight control on the health of poultry farms Monoufia Ibrahim Abdel-Latif

The Directorate of Health Affairs Menoufia booking on a poultry farm worker suspected of being infected with bird flu symptoms after the emergence of the disease.

"The. Atta, Hisham Youssef, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Menoufia that the situation of a person named Hossam Rizk Sa'edi 20 years, a poultry farm district Damishly Mnov Center, was booked hospital fevers Mnov following the emergence of symptoms of infection and a sample of blood taken and sent to labs central Ministry of Health for testing.



رقابة صحية مشددة على مزارع الدواجن المنوفية ـ إبراهيم عبد اللطيف


أعلنت مديرية الشئون الصحية بالمنوفية عن حجز عامل بمزرعة دواجن للاشتباه فى إصابته بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور إثر ظهور أعراض المرض عليه.

وأوضح د. هشام عطا يوسف وكيل وزارة الصحة بالمنوفية أن الحالة لشخص يدعى حسام رزق الصعيدى، 20 سنة، عامل بمزرعة دواجن بناحية دمشلى مركز منوف، وتم حجزه بمستشفى حميات منوف إثر ظهور أعراض الإصابة عليه وأخذ عينة من الدم وإرسالها إلى المعامل المركزية بوزارة الصحة للفحص.
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Blood tests rule out prime suspect in pig farm swine flu case

June 14, 2009 |

TORONTO - Officials have ruled out the prime suspect in the mystery over how a herd of Alberta pigs was infected with the new swine flu virus sweeping the globe.

A spokesperson for Alberta Health and Wellness says blood tests have shown that a carpenter who worked for half a day on the farm before heading home with flu-like illness did not introduce the virus to the herd.

"We've determined it wasn't the carpenter," says spokesperson Howard May.

The workman, Adrian Blaak, declined to be interviewed about the findings. Previously he'd said he did not believe he had infected the pigs, which were raised on a farm near Rocky Mountain House.

Blaak had just returned from a trip to Mexico when he went to do a job at the farm on April 14. At that point the new H1N1 virus was already circulating in parts of the Mexico, but the world was not yet aware a new flu virus was on the move.

The World Health Organization declared Thursday that the new virus has triggered a pandemic, the first in 41 years.

May says provincial health officials are starting to believe they may never find out how the virus made its way into the herd, the only pigs anywhere in the world to have tested positive for the new virus to this point.

"Since serological (blood) tests indicated the carpenter had not had H1N1, someone else must have brought it in, but it is unlikely we will ever be able to pinpoint exactly who," says May.

Officials had earlier said several members of the family that owned the farm were sick a couple of days before Blaak worked there briefly.

Others fell ill after the pigs started to display signs of being sick, leading authorities to suggest the virus may have gone from a person to pigs and back to people. Nasal swabs taken from people on the farm tested negative, but blood samples were taken to look for antibodies to the virus.

Whether that work is completed and what the tests showed if it is hasn't been made public.

Recently the farmer who owned the herd announced he had destroyed his pigs, because he could not sell the animals. The farm had been under quarantine since late April, when the outbreak first came to the attention of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Sporadic tests continued to find evidence of possible ongoing circulation of virus in the herd, says Dr. Jim Clark, the national manager for disease control for CFIA's animal health division.

Over the course of the weeks of quarantine, testing found diminishing but still present viral DNA, which may or may not have meant infectious viruses were still spreading among the pigs, Clark says.

He says the CFIA's lab in Winnipeg was only able to isolate live viruses from the pigs when they were sampled at the beginning of the investigation. Genetic sequencing of those viruses showed they are virtually identical to the swine flu viruses circulating in humans.

Clark says CFIA would like to be able to determine how the pigs got infected. But he says the agency isn't getting much co-operation from human health counterparts responsible for testing the people involved.

"So far we haven't been able to get a whole lot of information from them," he says, adding that while he's not sure why that is, privacy concerns may play a role.

"There's a need to know from a scientific perspective, to try and I guess to get a complete understanding of the epidemiology behind this, but at the same time not wanting to put this (farm) family under any more duress than they've already suffered."

Clark says he expects there will be other opportunities to learn about how this virus behaves when it gets into pig populations. With continued spread around the world, he suggests, "it's invariably going to result in the exposure of pigs in other countries and in other places."

But whether farmers will admit to it is another issue. The family who owned the Alberta herd has reportedly paid a heavy price, financially and personally. Pork sales are down, even though health officials have repeatedly stressed people can't get swine flu from eating pork.

Though the CFIA has asked swine producers and veterinarians to be on the lookout for possible infection in herds and to submit any unusual flu viruses for further testing, "very little" is coming forward, Clark admits.

"As soon as there's a disease outbreak, everybody gets real nervous about what might be happening," he says.

The lengthy quarantining of the Alberta farm - and the unfortunate outcome - may discourage farmers from reporting flu-like symptoms in their pigs. There are a variety of influenza virus subtypes that infect pigs and outbreaks, while common, are not a long-term threat to the health of pigs.

"I think right now the production community is looking and saying 'OK, when you can tell us what you specifically want to do about the situation, then we might be in a situation to want to submit samples to find out what's going on,"' says Clark, who admits he has some sympathy for that position.

"From a purely scientific perspective, I'd love all the samples in the world to be coming in and get as much background information as we can about where this virus may currently be occurring anywhere in the swine population," he says.


"On the practical side, without having a clearly defined policy that is able to get us out of the situation as quickly as possible and define all the risk factors, I'm saying 'Well, maybe I don't really want to know about too many things that are going on right now until we can get more definitive information about what we need to be concerned about."'

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Egypt: A closed-door meeting of the secretariat of the policy today to discuss the "swine flu"

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 15:32
Caption: Gamal Mubarak, Secretary of the Policy Committee and Assistant Secretary of the Secretary-General of the National Party

The secretariat will convene the party's National Policy on Monday, closed-door meeting chaired by Gamal Mubarak, Secretary of the Policy Committee and Assistant Secretary of the Secretary-General of the National Party, for the follow-up action plan to counter the proliferation of party h1n1 avian influenza virus in pigs, in the presence of d. Hatem Gabali, Minister of Health, Ahmed Ezz the party's organizing secretary, Dr. . Hilal on the media, by members of the Secretariat and the party secretaries in governorates.

ويناقش الاجتماع الأنشطة التى تقوم بها أمانات الحزب بالمحافظات على مستوى الوحدات الحزبية بالتعاون مع وزارة الصحة لتوعية المواطنين بالمعلومات الأساسية عن هذا المرض وكيفية الوقاية منه والإجراءات الواجب إتباعها فى حال الاشتباه بالإصابة.

The meeting discussed the activities of the party secretariats in governorates level party units in cooperation with the Ministry of Health to educate the public with basic information about the disease and how to prevent it and the procedures to be followed in the case of a suspected injury.

Egypt: Press in Qena detention on suspicion of bird flu

Detained hospital fevers Naga Hammadi press persons Mahmoud Abu-Hamad (27 years) suspected of being infected with bird flu.

Nahla entered the village road to the hospital in case of severe fatigue with high temperature and persistent cough and symptoms similar to bird flu.

Tkhalth birds were found to be infected were taken samples from the patient and sent to central laboratories to ensure that the disease infected or not.

احتجزت مستشفى حميات نجع حمادى الصحفية نهله محمود أبو الحمد (27 سنة) للاشتباه فى إصابتها بمرض أنفلونزا الطيور.

حيث دخلت نهلة من قرية الدرب إلى المستشفى فى حالة إعياء شديد تعانى ارتفاعا فى درجة الحرارة والسعال المستمر وأعراض مشابهة لمرض أنفلونزا الطيور.

تبين أنها تخالطه طيورا مصابة وتم أخذ عينة من المريضة وإرسالها إلى المعامل المركزية للتأكد من إصابتها بالمرض من عدمه.

Egypt: Hospitals put on high alert to face Assiut swine flu

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 15:10

Department of Health has Assiut all leave for doctors, nurses and administrators to address any risk of infection with swine flu county.

وأكد اللواء نبيل العزبى محافظ أسيوط، على أهمية تأمين احتياجات المحافظة من الماسكات والكمامات اللازمة مع توفير الإمكانيات بالمستشفيات لمواجهة أى طارئ قد يحدث، مشيراً إلى الإجراءات المكثفة التى اتخذتها المحافظة بالتعاون مع الصحة لمواجهة المرض، خاصة بعد رفع منظمة الصحة العالمية درجة التحذير إلى الدرجة السادسة، وهى درجة الوباء العالمى، وأن المستشفيات على أهبة الاستعداد لمواجهة أية طوارئ مع تكليف سيارات الإسعاف الطائر بسرعة نقل أية إصابات، نظراً للإمكانات الكبيرة المتوفرة لهذه السيارات.

Maj. Gen. Nabil Ezabi Assiut Governor, the importance of ensuring the needs of the province Almascat and masks, with the potential for hospitals to cope with any emergency that may arise, referring to the action taken by the intensive cooperation with the preservation of health to cope with the disease, especially after the WHO alert level to the sixth grade , the degree of the global epidemic, and that hospitals are ready to face any emergency with the designation of ambulances flying speeds the transfer of any injuries, given the large potential available for these cars.


ومن ناحيته أكد د.أحمد عبد المنعم وكيل وزارة الصحة بأسيوط، توفير نحو 3 ملايين كمامة وتوزيعها على مخازن منتشرة بأنحاء المحافظة مع إعادة تنظيم مخيمات القوافل الطبية منعاً للتكدس، حيث تم تزويدها بفتحات للتهوية وتنظيم دخول المرضى بحيث لا يتواجد أكثر من 5 أفراد فى عيادة واحدة تأتى كل هذه الإجراءات حفاظاً على صحة المواطنين وفى إطار مواجهة أنفلونزا الخنازير واستجابة لتعليمات منظمة الصحة العالمى.

For his part, he said. Ahmed Abdel-Moneim, Under-Secretary of Ministry of Health, Assiut, to provide 3 million towards the muzzle and distributed to stores scattered throughout the preserve with the reorganization of medical camps in convoys in order to prevent overcrowding, which have been equipped with slots for ventilation and to regulate the entry of patients are not more than 5 members in the clinic One is all of these actions in order to preserve the health of citizens and in response to avian and swine in response to the instructions of the World Health Organization.

Egypt: Swine Flu - 3 More Cases

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 13:43

Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health on Monday, the discovery of three new HIV infections (1, 1 H), known as swine flu arriving from abroad, in order to increase the incidence of in Egypt to 23 cases.

وقال شاهين فى تصريح له، إن الحالتين الأولى والثانية لسيدة أمريكية تبلغ من العمر 38 عاماً وابنتها البالغة من العمر 13 عاماً، وهما من الأسرة القادمة من أمريكا لزيارة أسرة الطفل الأمريكى المصاب رقم 19 فى القاهرة، على متن خطوط الطيران "كيه إل أم"، والتى وصلت إلى مطار القاهرة الدولى يوم 5 يونيو الحالى، ويتم حاليا تحويلهما إلى المستشفى لتلقى العلاج.

Shaheen said in a statement, said that the cases first and the second American woman, aged 38 years and daughter aged 13 years, and the family are coming from America to visit the injured child's family, U.S. No. 19 in Cairo, on board the airline, "KLM" and who arrived in Cairo International Airport on June 5 of this, and it is being transferred to hospital for treatment.


وأوضح أن الحالة الثالثة هى لسيدة سودانية تبلغ من العمر 49 عاماً وهى جدة الطفل الكندى من أصل سودانى وهو الحالة رقم 20 التى أعلن عن اكتشافها أمس، وتم تحويلها إلى مستشفى بالقاهرة للعلاج وإعطائها عقار "التاميفلو" وحالتها الصحية مستقرة.

The third case is a Sudanese woman, a 49-year-old grandmother, a Canadian child of Sudanese origin, a situation No. 20 announced the discovery yesterday, and was transferred to a hospital in Cairo for treatment and given the drug "Tamiflu", and in stable condition.


وأشار شاهين إلى أن إجمالى الحالات التى شفيت حتى الآن بلغت 9 حالات من إجمالى عدد المصابين بالمرض، والبالغ عددهم 23 حالة حتى الآن.

Shaheen noted that the total cases, which recovered to date amounted to 9 cases of the total number of people infected with the disease, and of the 23 cases so far.


وذكر شاهين فى ختام تصريحه، أن وزارة الصحة رفعت اليوم إجراءات الحجر الصحى عن المقيمين بالمبنى السكنى لطلبة الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة بمنطقة الزمالك بعد مرور 7 أيام، وجميع الطلبة بحالة صحية جيدة وعادوا للدراسة.

Shaheen said at the end of his statement, that the Ministry of Health today lifted the quarantine procedures for building accommodation for the resident students of the American University in Cairo in Zamalek after 7 days, and the situation of all the students good health and returned to the study.