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.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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
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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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.
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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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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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.
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
Excerpt
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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2009-06-14
Excerpt
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.
-snip-
INFLUENZA A (H1N1): ANIMAL HEALTH (14), EU PREPAREDNESS, EGYPT
| Published Date | 15-JUN-2009 |
| Subject | PRO/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 | |||||||
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Egypt: 5 Articles (excerpts)
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"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."
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Medical Association has complained to the governor of Kafr El-Sheikh clean
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 19:00
http://tinyurl.com/msa5kt
"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...
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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. ..
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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. ...
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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.
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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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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hat-tip Shiloh
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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