Egypt May 12, 2009 to July 24, 2009

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by: DemFromCT @ Tue May 12, 2009 at 21:05:38 PM CDT

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by: cottontop @ Wed May 13, 2009 at 04:08:50 AM CDT

Two new suspected bird flu

Two new suspected bird flu in the Fayoum and Monoufia  

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 16:48

Detained, hospital diets and fevers Fayyoum Mnov two new suspected bird flu, which entered the honorable Muhammad (30 years) from the village was built in favor of the status of Fayoum Fayoum fever in a hospital, and hospital fevers Mnov detained, housewife, on suspicion of being infected with bird flu, following the emergence of symptoms of the disease.

Pointed out. Hesham Atta, Deputy Minister of Health, the situation of a woman named Samia Omar Shimi (42 years) and assess the housewife Jraun County Center Alpajur.  Blood samples were taken for examination of the injured was a factor and the Ministry of Health show that the cause of their infection has been raising birds at home to move to the place of residence and health through cleaning up the place safe.

In the same context Quesna of Investigation has seized a car No. 72545 Qlliopip command transfer spring Mohamed Gad (40 years) transported the driver of the number of 160 chickens without a permit and reservation to the car  And the quantities seized and the investigation by the prosecutor.

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by: cottontop @ Wed May 13, 2009 at 20:43:19 PM CDT

Bird flu virus contracted by 4-year-old Egyptian boy

CAIRO, May 14 (RIA Novosti) - A 4-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the bird flu virus, bringing the number of human avian flu cases in the country to 70, a deputy health minister said on Thursday.

Amr Kandil said the boy from the Sharqiya in the country's northeast had been hospitalized with a high fever. The tests confirmed the H5N1 virus.

The boy was being treated with the anti-viral drug Tamiflu and his condition was stable, the health official said.
Egypt's first case of bird flu was recorded in 2006, since when at least 26 people have died after contracting the virus.

Although there have been no incidences of human-to-human infection, experts fear that the bird flu virus may mutate into a form that could be easily transmitted from person to person, causing a global pandemic.

http://en.rian.ru/world/200905...

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by: cottontop @ Thu May 14, 2009 at 04:17:50 AM CDT

Australia watching flu risk for Indonesian pigs

Thursday, 14/05/2009
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/ne...

Australia is worried that the Indonesian pig population could be struck down with a new form of flu.

Senator Joe Ludwig has told Federal Parliament that after Canadian pigs caught swine flu from humans, there's now concern swine flu could spread to Indonesia and mix with bird flu within the pig population.

"Evidence to date about the bird flu virus is that its ability to mix with other viruses is limited compared with the ability of seasonal viruses - that is, those which are H1 and H3 - to mix," he said.

"Nonetheless, this is an important concern that needs close monitoring."

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by: Pixie @ Thu May 14, 2009 at 06:10:13 AM CDT

wrong country

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by: Pixie @ Thu May 14, 2009 at 06:10:36 AM CDT

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Piggy mess

Although Egypt remains free of the H1N1 virus the government is to continue with its cull of the pigs, reports Reem Leila

14 - 20 May 2009
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/200...

As swine flu fears sweep the world governments everywhere are taking steps to prepare for a global pandemic. With no confirmed cases of swine flu within its borders Egypt has taken the unique step of culling all pigs. Despite opposition from pig breeders the General Authority for Veterinary Services (GAVS) has already slaughtered 22,000 animals out of an estimated 350,000.

Dozens of dead pigs have been found in streets and on garbage piles in the Saqr Qureish area on the outskirts of Maadi. According to Engineer Amin El-Khayal, head of the Waste Management Unit at the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), the ministry has nothing to do with these pigs and disposal of the corpses is the responsibility of the municipalities and GAVS.

Hamed Samaha, head of GAVS, says the authority will send a team to collect the dead pigs and dispose of them hygienically. The authority has already received hundreds of complaints. On early Monday a veterinary team checked the dead animals to test for H1N1. The examination, says Samaha, suggests that the animals actually fell off a truck as they were being transported and were then hit by cars.

Three weeks after the first cases of swine fly were reported in Mexico the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs ordered the removal of all pig farms away from residential areas. El-Khayal points out that the agency has already prepared a study suggesting new locations. It was presented to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Sunday.

"We are waiting for cabinet approval before acting," says El-Khayal.

The new location, he says, will be ready within two years.  

Under the plan pig farms will be relocated to a 238-acre site in the Al-Koraymat area, 27km from 15 May city and 11km from the Helwan- Koraymat road. The new location will also be used to recycle garbage, according to Presidential decree 338/2008. The new site has been approved by the ministries of health, housing, local development and agriculture.

Egypt will continue slaughtering the nation's pigs until the end of May, says Saber Abdel-Aziz, a veterinarian at GAVS. The authority has called on the government to set up a special crisis management committee to deal with any virus outbreak. The committee would be tasked with addressing the environmental logistics of disposing of large numbers of dead pigs. Abdel-Aziz has also called on the government to intensify research into a possible vaccine for the virus.

News reports have criticised the haphazard and unsanitary way in which pigs have been killed and moved to different sites and the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs for being ill- equipped to dispose of animals already slaughtered. El-Khayal refuses to accept any of the criticisms levelled, insisting that the ministry was perfectly prepared.

"Pigs are buried in a hole between six to eight metres deep and covered with lime with other chemicals to guarantee safety," he claimed.

Disposing of the organic waste the pigs would have consumed presents a different dilemma.

"Each pig can eat up to 10 kilos of organic waste per day. More effort is now required of the waste- disposal companies if this is not to be left rotting in the streets," says pig breeder Marzouk Adli.

Adli points out that the price of pork has decreased to just LE5 a kilo whereas until recently it was sold for between LE30 and LE80. "The compensation the government is paying us is not enough," insists Adli.

In an attempt to persuade pig breeders to relinquish their pigs the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation has announced that breeders will be allowed title to the land on which new farms are to be built and granted easy, 20-year credit terms for its purchase.

Agriculture Minister Amin Abaza confirms that pig breeders can return to breeding pigs in the new locations after six months. Old pens are currently being sterilised as a precautionary measure. According to Abaza the government has increased the compensation for each pig slaughtered from LE100 to LE250.

Adli is not impressed by the offer of land title. "I doubt the government will allow us to buy the new lands at cheap prices unless they are void of any infrastructure," he says.

Fears have been expressed that there could be contamination from pork to other products in meat processing factories. It is a possibility, concedes Samaha.

"The authority and police are conducting spot checks," he says, though whether that will reassure consumers who fear pork may inadvertently appear in frozen kofta, burgers and the like remains to be seen.

Since H1N1 is not transmitted via the digestive system there are no health concerns from such an overlap as long as the meat is cooked well, says Samaha.

"The problem is that Muslim citizens do not eat pork. For the time being it is better to refrain from eating any processed meat," he advised.

Health officials have been keen to underline that Egypt remains free of the H1N1 virus. Abdel-Rahman Shahin, official spokesman at the Ministry of Health, told Al-Ahram Weekly that there have been no reported cases of swine flu in Egypt so far. He warned that travellers still face medical checks upon arriving at any Egyptian port. He refuted rumours, fanned by the media, that public hospitals have reported suspected cases and that the government is covering them up.

"All suspected cases have been dismissed from hospital. None tested positive," he said.

The Ministry of Health has cancelled all doctors' vacations and set up a swine flu hotline (105).

"The ministry will conduct more than 200 workshops covering all doctors and health workers. This is in addition to 4,600 workshops in villages and health clinics that aim to increase people's awareness of the H1N1 virus," says Shahin. "The Health Ministry is also preparing a booklet and will be posting up-to-date information on its website."

A report issued by the Egyptian Cabinet Decision Support Centre (IDSC) revealed that 51,227 passengers coming from infected countries had been tested for the virus. They all proved negative.

There have been more than 5,000 cases of swine flu reported worldwide, covering 29 countries. There have, so far, been 49 fatalities.

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by: Pixie @ Thu May 14, 2009 at 15:37:32 PM CDT

15 Suspect BF

The detention of 15 suspected cases of bird flu Bkivraheik  And control of farm contrary Sohag

The hospitals continued to receive diets governorates of suspected cases of bird flu in the context of an intense campaign by all organs of the State concerned.

Alaa Abdullah of the award:  were detained in the case of a new fever hospital, after feeling severe pain in bones and a sharp rise in temperature and a cough lasting and ran from the nose and shortness of breath, including 5 children and 5 women from the cities and villages of the province to rise the number of detainees with avian influenza during the week and only one award Bmschwii fever for more than a year, 48 the case of a new record is not registered in any other province since the outbreak of the disease.

The sample was obtained from the blood of the new cases and survey of hours and sent to the central laboratory of the Ministry of Health.

Suhaj Mohamed Mutawe: (15.Reservation was old, male and female contacts of domestic birds to hospital on suspicion of administering Souhag getting bird flu, which are good, Sultan Bahia (80 years) from the village center Alawamr nautical Gerga Nora fixed Makhlouf (15 years) from the village Balyana Burah status, said Dr. Elia Aziz, Chief of the Operations Room of Veterinary Medicine Department of the governorate.

On the other hand, was able Investigation together with the supply of veterinary medicine from the control of illegal poultry farm in the first cycle of Sohag.

Shanawi Mr. Hamid, the governor of the West, that the campaigns against bird flu at the level of villages and towns of the province, resulted in the execution of 25 thousand and 855 birds have been buried undertakers allocated to health, and the elimination of 1200 shanty home, and clearance, in addition to the confiscation of 7 vehicles carrying live birds, and the closure of 21 shops for the sale and slaughter of live birds.

Arish Ahmed Salim:

Department of Health published a checkpoint in northern Sinai and the proliferation of quick medical teams at all border points in common with all of the Gaza Strip and Israel, while the subject of all coming from the port of Awja road to check to make sure they are free from avian Alkhanaazir., Dr. Tariq Nehlawi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health to maintain strict medical procedures that houses part of the comprehensive measures taken in all parts of the province.  

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by: cottontop @ Thu May 14, 2009 at 19:29:37 PM CDT

WHO update: 1 new case, 3 confirmed deaths

http://www.who.int/csr/don/200...

15 May 2009 -- The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza. The case is a 5-year old female from Tama District, Sohag Governorate. Her symptoms began on 7 May and she was admitted in Sohag Fever Hospital on 9 May where she received oseltamivir. She is in a stable condition.

The case was confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories on 10 May 2009.

Investigations into the source of infection indicate close contact with dead and sick poultry.

The Ministry of Health of Egypt has announced the deaths of previously confirmed cases of H5N1 as follows:

6-year-old male from Qaliobia Governorate;
33-year-old female from Kfr El Sheikh Governorate
25-year-old female from Cairo Governorate

Of the 69 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 26 have been fatal.

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by: AlohaOR @ Fri May 15, 2009 at 09:06:21 AM CDT

Egyptian boy contracts bird flu

Egyptian boy contracts bird flu - MENA
15 May 2009 15:42:22 GMT
Source: Reuters
CAIRO, May 15 (Reuters) - A three-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, the 71st case in the populous Arab country, the state-run news agency MENA said on Friday.

It is the second case in as many days in Egypt, which has seen a surge in infections this year.

A spokesman for the Health Ministry said the boy showed symptoms including a high temperature after coming into contact with domestic poultry, MENA reported.

The boy, from Mahalla in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, was in a stable condition in hospital and being treated with Tamiflu, the spokesman added.
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by: mojo @ Fri May 15, 2009 at 11:37:27 AM CDT

Swine flu major concern during Mecca pilgrimages

Cairo, May 15: Egypt today said it will quarantine and examine its citizens returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca, if swine flu appeared in Saudi Arabia before the Hajj season.

With swine flu reaching to as many as 33 countries, concerns are growing over the spread of the H1N1 virus during major congregations of people in Umrah and Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimages to Mecca.

Egyptian Health Minister Hatem el-Gabli has said if swine flu appeared in Saudi Arabia before the Hajj season, those returning from the pilgrimage will be quarantined.

The minister said that in the current conditions, the threat of swine flu is given to any people's gathering including Umrah and Hajj.

The Umrah (or the minor pilgrimage) represents a serious problem ahead as its season starts from June 20 to early October and from November one to mid January.

The timings are a cause of concern because the virus may calm down for a while before striking hard in the fall, the Minister was quoted as saying by the Middle East News Agency (Mena).

About half a million Egyptians travel for Umrah in the first 10 days of the month of Ramadan, he said, pointing out that this might mean the infection might spread to millions of people in less than a week.

Ramadan in 2009 will start from mid-August while the Hajj will be performed in November.

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by: cottontop @ Fri May 15, 2009 at 14:40:15 PM CDT

Egyptian boy 3 contracts bird flu

Fri May 15, 2009 11:42am EDT

CAIRO, May 15 (Reuters) - A three-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, the 71st case in the populous Arab country, the state-run news agency MENA said on Friday.

It is the second case in as many days in Egypt, which has seen a surge in infections this year.

A spokesman for the Health Ministry said the boy showed symptoms including a high temperature after coming into contact with domestic poultry, MENA reported.

The boy, from Mahalla in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, was in a stable condition in hospital and being treated with Tamiflu, the spokesman added.

Since 2003 the avian influenza virus has infected more than 400 people in 15 countries and killed 256 of them. It has killed or forced the culling of more than 300 million birds across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Egypt has been hit harder by bird flu than any other country outside of Asia.

Twenty-three Egyptians have died after contracting the virus, most after contact with infected domestic birds in a country where roughly 5 million households depend on raising domestic poultry as a major source of food and income.

While the H5N1 virus only rarely infects people, experts fear it could mutate into a form that humans could easily pass to one another, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions.

Last month, Egypt ordered the culling of all the country's 300,000 to 400,000 pigs as a precaution against the new H1N1 influenza strain, also known as swine flu, which has infected nearly 6,000 people in more than 30 countries. The new virus has not been detected in Egypt so far. (Writing by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Jon Boyle)

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by: cottontop @ Sat May 16, 2009 at 06:43:16 AM CDT

10 suspect BF

 Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 13:22

Dakahliya Mohamed Saleh

Detained in Mansoura Chest Hospital during the ten days in hospital for suspected cases of bird flu, and they made Fathi Abdel-Maksoud (59 years) and Mahmoud Attia Marsa (40 years old), Malki, Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim (30 years) of the city Alsnellowin and satisfaction on the Fri Shehata (55 years) from the Center for Aja, Ibrahim Ismail (63 years) from the village of Ooic stone, and the advantages of the Alasal (52 years) of the Nbroh and Mas'ada Hassan Hassanein (55 years old), Mit, and security Muawwad Mustafa (33 years) and Sakina Saad Naeem (33 years) from the village need Ratiba Center of Mansoura, Hoda Hamdy Mahmoud (two and a half) of the status of the Arab village of Kafr line.

It also led to campaigns against bird flu Badakkhlip of the execution of 4417 birds in violation of the conditions of their sale and circulation of live birds as well as education and home villages.

And Dr. Fathi Albely Director of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine Badakkhlip that these birds were culled for the young and not be slaughtered, and 6863 birds have been culled and 45 handed over a crackdown on product markets, in addition to the elimination of 696 shanty towns in the 6 and the closure of small farms within the cities and 64 of pregnancy in violation of the requirements environmental and laboratory examination and permit the transfer of birds, referring to the donation of the number of birds of the Assembly of 47 girls Mansoura.

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by: cottontop @ Sun May 17, 2009 at 08:08:16 AM CDT

Egyptian girl dies of bird flu virus - agency

Monday, 18 May 2009 14:37

A 4-year-old Egyptian girl has died after contracting the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, Egypt's state news agency MENA said on Monday.
The girl, from the Nile Delta province of Daqahlia, brings the number of human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 72, MENA said.

Of those, 27 have died.

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by: cottontop @ Mon May 18, 2009 at 08:33:08 AM CDT

Boy possible SF suspect

Been doubts about the boy (15 years) for the swine flu infection

2009-05-18 22:45:45

Receiving treatment in hospital, "Caramel," a boy in Haifa, a five-year-old after showing symptoms of the disease was swine flu, which Istady to take him to the hospital.

According to the official spokesman said the boy is subject to the hospital for observation and tests in the hospital and staying in an isolated room in order to avoid transmission to others found his way to the disease.

It will be recalled that he returned to the country from the United States of America on Sunday, suffering from symptoms of the disease is suspected that the swine flu instance high body temperature and pain in the throat.

Reference is made to that so far have been verified from a 7 citizens from different regions of the country's swine flu was treated at the hospitals and demobilization to the home after the examination has been recovered a number of cases after the emergence of symptoms suspected that it was swine flu.

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by: cottontop @ Mon May 18, 2009 at 17:19:50 PM CDT

Are they admittting to swine flu cases?

(from above article)

"Reference is made to that so far have been verified from a 7 citizens from different regions of the country's swine flu was treated at the hospitals and demobilization to the home after the examination has been recovered a number of cases after the emergence of symptoms suspected that it was swine flu."

"...that it WAS swine flu."  Or could that be a mistranslation?  


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by: cottontop @ Mon May 18, 2009 at 17:23:53 PM CDT

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Egypt warns of post-hajj swine flu quarantine

Egypt warns of post-hajj swine flu quarantine

Associated Press , Cairo
Wed, 05/20/2009 4:09 PM
http://www.thejakartapost.com/...

Egypt's health minister is warning Egyptian who plan to attend the hajj in Saudi Arabia they may be quarantined upon their return, amid concerns of exposure to swine flu at an annual pilgrimage that draws millions.

In an interview Wednesday with the independent daily al-Masry al-Youm, Hatem al-Gabali said that in past years thousands of Egyptians had returned ill from the hajj.

While neither Saudi Arabia nor Egypt has any reported cases of swine flu, the concern is some of the roughly 3 million Muslims from around the world who attend the hajj could be infected.

Al-Gabali said the quarantine option was on the table, but that no decision had been taken.

The pilgrimage is required of all able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetime.

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by: Pixie @ Wed May 20, 2009 at 04:38:55 AM CDT

26 bf suspect

19/May/09

Detained in hospital diets and the West Lake and the Damietta Qalubia 26 suspected cases of bird flu symptoms, and tests have proven cure the disease in the infected child East.

In the West, Dr. Essam Othman, Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine in the Department of Health, the hospital admitted Mahala held Hisham Ahmed Hassan Ali, 5 years, and Mohamed Mohamed Abdel Aal, 22, from Smonod Hassan Ahmed Hassan, and 3 years from the Almatmdip, and Mohammed Ismail Al-7 years, and Abeer Jaber Hajjaj nurse    30 years of estate law, and Mr. Mahmoud Ali Mahmoud, 4 years of Kafr Dmro, and happy 21 year-Baqi El Sawi, Salma Mehdi Bastawisi year and eight months,

It also held «a Mahallah» Hany Mohamed Fathy Saft 8 months of dust, and Mustafa Ahmed Abdalrady 4 years of Izbat Obodraa. Received «Tanta fevers» Najwa Mohamed Mahmoud Urabi 30 year housewife of the area will draw, and Mahmoud Sobhy Ammar, 16 years of Shabra Namla, Amina Ibrahim, 53 years of Almasrany Qtor Center, and Mohamed Magid du'aa Razeq 24 years of Alsentp Center.

Received «a Tanta» Lole Ibrahim Abdel Aal, 45 years of Kafr Essam. In the lake, Dr. Yosri Congratulations, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health had been detained Mohamed Fouad Gannat Lachin, two months, from the Center for Kom Hamada, Ahmed Mohamed El Baker of the Center for 32 years in the Kafr Al-Dawar «fevers Alexandria», and the names of Mohamed Abou El Ela Mus'ad 6 years, and Nadia Abdullah Mohamed Arafa 15 months, and Nabil Al-Shazly 40 years of the status of Damanhour «fevers Damanhour».

In Qaliubiya Dr. Abdaty Abda'er, Director of Preventive Medicine in the Department of Health, the hospital admitted that the milk was held at the Riyadh Hani Attia, 3 years of Izbat Obofarag Center Banha, Mr. Mona Ahmed Jazzar, 20 years of the status of Tok, and dignified Ghneim Hussein, 45 years of Qalyoub Center, noting that they had contact with dead birds home.

In the hospital, held Damietta Damietta fevers Mona Ahmed Bassiouni «45 years» from the village of poets, the status of Damietta, Mr. Awad Abdulghaffar 18 years working Alhamul, Kafr El-Sheikh, and Hanan Reda Farhat, two and a half years.

In Fayoum, confirmed Saber Abdel-Al, a member of a local Council met Monday, during the recent local meeting, the live birds bought and sold in markets and shops operating under the nose of those responsible did not take any action even on a face-saving way to ensure oversight of health.

For his part, admitted Dr. Emad Younan, director of the Veterinary Department at the met Monday, the potential vulnerability of animal units and disability rise in veterinarians, pointing out that people smuggling birds over the course of the immunization committee, a reference reason for the absence of vaccines to the lack of refrigerators for the preservation of the damage.

In Alexandria seized security crackdowns in cooperation with the security the subject of the sale of 11 birds and found that the owners of 15 shops which were closed to break the seals and the opening of the records have been liberalized, as the straw was removed 346 birds 4876 birds and the execution of the campaign carried out 7 administrative decisions to close 7 stores again.

On the other hand, stressed Rauf Adib, a doctor at a hospital in the Tamiflu drug, the child recovered Mahmoud Ali El-Shafei, 4 years, from the village of Kafr Saqr Alahjarsp in the East, from bird flu, which has suffered Monday.

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by: cottontop @ Wed May 20, 2009 at 10:51:50 AM CDT

Two Egyptian boys contract bird flu

20 May 2009 15:58:06 GMT

CAIRO, May 20 (Reuters) - Two Egyptian boys have contracted the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, bringing the total number of cases in the most populous Arab country to 74, state news agency MENA said on
Wednesday.

Egypt, hit harder by bird flu than any other country outside Asia, has seen a surge in cases in recent weeks with 14 new human infections and four deaths reported since April 1 -- more than the country saw in all
of 2008. The children -- a 4-year-old boy from Daqahlia in the Nile Delta and a 3-year-old boy from Sohag in the south -- were admitted to hospital with high fever and were in a stable condition after being treated with Tamiflu, MENA said. It quoted a health ministry spokesman as saying that both boys had been in contact with birds suspected of being infected with the disease. The new
infections came just days after a 4-year-old girl died of the virus on Monday. Overall, 27 Egyptians have died after contracting the virus.

Most Egyptians who contracted the disease fell ill after coming into contact with infected domestic birds in a country where roughly 5 million households depend on domestically raised poultry as a significant source of food and income. While the H5N1 virus only rarely infects people, experts fear it could mutate into a form that
humans could easily pass to one another, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions. (Writing by Alastair Sharp; editing by Philippa
Fletcher)

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by: cottontop @ Wed May 20, 2009 at 11:20:27 AM CDT

Swine hunt death squads: commentary

Pig stuff
By Salama A Salama

Bird flu hit us a few years ago and to this day the government doesn't know what to do with it. Bird flu has already spread in our villages, farms and cities and many have contracted it. Yet, we're still at a loss about it. We're still wondering what vaccine to use, and whether people and birds can co-exist. To this day, we don't know the extent of the threat bird flu poses to the country. One day the prime minister or the agriculture minister says that bird flu is over. Another day, experts tell us that they just found a vaccine that would rid the country from it. So roughly speaking, we're still at risk, but shouldn't worry too much. This alone makes me worry.

Recently another strain of flu, just as potentially deadly, hit the country. Swine flu, which appeared in Mexico and spread fast across the globe, was billed by the World Health Organisation as a major international health peril. Initially, our government went into denial, telling us it has everything under control. A few days later, it reversed its position, telling us that the country has a swine population of 350,000 that is a menace to all humans in this country.

Then the swine hunt began. Death squads, with and without masks, were detailed to annihilate the swine population in a hurry. Small details, as the proper disposal of animal carcasses, were left for later. Tens of thousands of pigs were rounded up and executed. Only a few were properly slaughtered for storage and later sale. No differentiation was made between healthy and infected animals -- as far as we know none of the swine population was found infected with that particular virus.

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by: cottontop @ Fri May 22, 2009 at 05:23:03 AM CDT

Avian influenza WHO update 16 - 5 confirmed cases

http://www.who.int/csr/don/200...

22 May 2009 -- Between 13 to 20 May, the Ministry of Health of Egypt reported five new confirmed human case of avian influenza.

The first case is a 4-year old boy from Kafr Sakr District, Sharkia Governorate. His symptoms began on 10 May 2009 and he was admitted to Zagazig Fever Hospital on 11 May. He is in a stable condition.

The second case is a 3-year old boy from Mahalla District, Gharbia Governorate. His symptoms began on 12 May and he was admitted to Mahalla Fever Hospital on 15 May 2009. He is in a stable condition.

The third case was a 4-year old girl from Meet Ghamr District, Dakahlia Governorate. Her symptoms began on 9 May 2009 and she was admitted to Mansoura Chest Hospital on 17 May 2009. She died on 18 May 2009.

The fourth case is a 4-year old boy from Sherbin District, Dakahlia Governorate. His symptoms began on 18 May 2009 and he was admitted to Mansoura Chest Hospital on the same day. He is in a stable condition.

The fifth case is a 3-year old boy from Sohag District, Sohag Governorate. His symptoms began on 17 May 2009 and he was admitted to Sohag Fever Hospital on 18 May 2009. He is in a stable condition.

Investigations into the source of infection indicated that all the above cases had close contact with dead and sick poultry. All five cases have been confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory.

Of the 74 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 27 have been fatal.

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by: AlohaOR @ Fri May 22, 2009 at 22:09:59 PM CDT

Two Egyptian Children H5N1

26 May 2009

Source: Reuters

CAIRO, May 26 (Reuters) - Two four-year-old Egyptian children have contracted the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, raising to 76 the number of cases reported in Egypt, the state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.

Egypt has been hit harder by bird flu than any other country outside Asia and has seen a surge of cases in recent weeks.

The children, a boy and girl, were from different areas of Sharkiya province in the Nile Delta region. Both fell ill after coming into contact with birds with the virus.

The avian flu virus rarely infects people, but experts say they fear it could mutate into a form that humans could easily pass to one another, sparking a pandemic.

Most of those infected have previously been in contact with infected domestic birds in a country where 5 million households raise poultry as a significant source of food and income.

Since 2003, the H5N1 virus has infected more than 400 people in 15 countries and killed more than 250. It has killed or forced the culling of more than 300 million birds in 61 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

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by: cottontop @ Tue May 26, 2009 at 19:28:45 PM CDT

Swine flu cases appear in Egypt, Kuwait, UAE

DUBAI, 25 May 2009 (IRIN) - Confirmed cases of A(H1N1) influenza, commonly known as swine flu, have been reported in new countries in the Middle East. Hitherto only Israel had reported cases of the new influenza virus.

• The United Arab Emirates confirmed its first case of A(H1N1) on 24 May. Health Minister Hanif Hassan said a man who had flown in from Canada was being treated in one of the country's hospitals. He was no longer showing symptoms, but would be kept under observation there for 10 days.

• In Kuwait, about 18 US soldiers at a military base have tested positive for A(H1N1). The Kuwaiti authorities announced on 24 May that all the soldiers had left the country, that they had normal symptoms of the disease, and that they were given the necessary medication. The head of Kuwait's public health department, Yussef Mendkar, said the soldiers had had no contact with the local population.

• Israel, the first country to register confirmed cases in the region, announced its eighth case on 24 May.

• The authorities in Egypt's Red Sea Governorate have hospitalised a German tourist who had arrived at Hurghada airport in the area with swine flu-like symptoms, according to a local newspaper. The man said he had visited a pig farm 10 days earlier in Germany. Medical samples have been sent to laboratories in Cairo for testing.

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by: cottontop @ Wed May 27, 2009 at 05:38:11 AM CDT

WHO: Egypt reports 2 cases of bird flu

5/28/2009, 2:50 a.m. PDTThe Associated Press    

(AP) - GENEVA - The World Health Organization says Egypt has reported two new human cases of bird flu.

Both cases involve young children in Sharkia province.

WHO says a 4-year old girl in Abo Hammad district developed symptoms on May 23 and a 4-year old boy in Hehia City fell ill on May 24.

The two have been hospitalized and are being treated with antiviral medication. Their conditions are described as stable.

WHO says investigations show the two had close contact with dead or sick poultry.

The global body said Thursday that Egypt has had 76 confirmed bird flu cases and 27 deaths to date.

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by: cottontop @ Thu May 28, 2009 at 07:17:26 AM CDT

WHO: Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 17

http://www.who.int/csr/don/200...

28 May 2009 -- The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported two new confirmed human cases of avian influenza on 26 May 2009. The two cases are from two separate districts of Sharkia Governorate.

The first case is a 4-year old male from Hehia City, Hehia District. His symptoms began with fever on 24 May 2009.

The second case is a 4-year old female from Abo Hammad District. Her symptoms began with fever on 23 May 2009.

Both cases were admitted to Zagazig Fever Hospital where they received oseltamivir and are in a stable condition.

Investigations into the source of infection indicated that the above two cases had close contact with dead and sick poultry. Both cases were confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories on 26 May 2009.

Of the 76 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 27 have been fatal.

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by: AlohaOR @ Thu May 28, 2009 at 08:46:24 AM CDT

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Egypt reports 77th bird flu case

5/30/2009 10:20:00 PM  

CAIRO, May 30 (KUNA) -- The Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed on Saturday the 77th infection case with H5N1 virus.

A female baby, aged one year and two months, contracted the highly pathogenic virus because she got in contact with domestic birds in a village located in Daqahliya, north Cairo, the ministry's spokesman Dr. Abdulrahman Shahin said in a press briefing.

The baby was hospitalized five days ago, suffering from bird flu-like symptoms including high temperature, running nose, and respiratory disorder.

She was diagnosed as H5N1 positive so she has been treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu, Dr. Shahin revealed.
The victim is being relocated to Manshiyat Al-Bakri Hospital, Cairo, for further medication, he added.
The case pushed to 77 Egypt's national tally of the fatal disease with the death toll amounting to 27 since the outbreak of the highly contagious virus in February, 2006.
The National Higher Commission against Bird Flu has adopted a new preventive methodology to control the spread of the H5N1, a subtype of the influenza A virus commonly-known as bird flu which can cause illness in humans. The methodology involves the medical and municipal authorities as well as the mass media. (end) bna.gb KUNA 302220 May 09NNNN  

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by: cottontop @ Sun May 31, 2009 at 06:50:35 AM CDT

WHO update 18

http://www.who.int/csr/don/200...

1 June 2009 -- The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza.

The case is a 14-month old girl from Dekernes District, Dkhalia Governorate. Her symptoms began on 25 May 2009. She was admitted to Mansoura Chest Hospital on 29 May where she received oseltamivir and is in a stable condition.

Investigations into the source of infection indicated that she had close contact with dead and sick poultry. The case was confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories.

Of the 77 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 27 have been fatal.

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by: AlohaOR @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 23:00:17 PM CDT

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Twenty-Six People Suspected Bird Flu

Twenty-Six People Disallowed in Six Provinces Suspected of Being Infected by 'Bird Flu'

May 31, 2009 03:49 AM EDT
By  Ghada Abdalhafez, Said Nafa', Adel Dora, Abdel-Hakam Al-Gendi, Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, Nasr Al-Kashef and Yasser Shamis    

Yesterday, fever hospitals in six provinces have disallowed twenty-six people suspected of being infected by the Bird Flu symptoms.

In Dakahliya, the chest hospital in Mansoura has disallowed fourteen people from Meit Ghamr, Mansours, Agga and Sherbin and Kafr Al-Sheikh province. Samples were taken to be examined to make sure that they were not infected by Bird Flu. In the meantime, the doctors in the hospital confirmed that seventeen people were discharged from the hospital after being given the all clear.

In Gharbia, the fever hospital in Tanta and Mahla disallowed six people suspected of being infected by the Bird Flu.

In Qaliubiya, the under-secretary of the Minister of Health there, Dr.Mamdooh Khalef, confirmed that the chest hospital in Abbasiyah disallowed Om-Hashim Abdalmo'emn Mohamed, 68 year-old house wife, from Al-Amal city in Shubra al-Khaima after coming from Nasser General Hospital and a 2 year-old child Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud, who was interacting with household birds, were both suspected of being infected with the disease.

In Menya, the under-secretary of the Minister of Health Dr Mohamed Ayman Ragab confirmed that Sayeda Morsi Saber, a 35 year-old, and her daughter Warda Mohamed Magdy, a one and a half year-old from the village of Alqtaeva, Deir Moas center, were disallowed from the fever hospital of Dermwas.

In Damietta, Damietta hospital disallowed Sawsan Fathi Mohamed, a 36 year-old house wife, from Farscor center and a sample was taken from her to be examined.

In Behira, the under-secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Yousri Mabrouk, confirmed that Afaf Reda Abdel-Rahman Wahdan, a 36 year-old from Kafr Al-Dawar was disallowed in the fever hospital in Alexandria.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 04:38:30 AM CDT

17 cases in 5 provinces suspect bird flu

The detention of 17 cases in 5 provinces on suspicion of bird flu
And the seizure of more than 4 thousands of birds in Damietta and Port Said
31/May/09

Detained in Mansoura Chest Hospital, yesterday, 7 new cases of suspected bird flu, they are: Abdul Aziz Gad flowers, Magda Mohamed Zeini, the names of Abraham, Mr. Jalal Taher, Mohammad Reza Abdullah, Princess Ashraf Awad Allah and from Hany Ahmed, said doctors at the hospital, 15 out the case of the detainees on suspicion of wounding after confirmation of the negative samples.

In the West, was arrested hospitals admitted Tanta and Mahala 7 new cases, suspected of having avian flu, where he was admitted Mahallah both: Mr. Reza Al-Khattab «years and three months», Abdulrahman Ahmed «4-year», and held both of Tanta fevers: King Amr Salah Muhammad Hamza al-Far «3 years» Behind Nnadif Imad AFAF Abda'er «35 years» and Nagwa Ibrahim Rashad «30 years».

In Qaliubiya detained hospital fevers Banha Mr. Mahmoud Arafa «16 years» called the Institute of the deaf and dumb girl and Mei Ibrahim Hosni «3 and a half years» of suspected bird flu.

In Beni Suef, was held at the Fatima Hamdan «49 years» on suspicion of being infected with the disease, the samples were taken and sent to the laboratories of the Ministry of Health.

In Damietta, the control and execution of the 2098 removal of live birds and 146 shanty home in the city-wide, and 296 birds were seized in the market Friday with the street vendors.

In Port Said, were seized about 2000 birds at dawn yesterday, the market for sale bin Abi Talib flower district, and the liberated 4 minutes of the incident, and issued, Maj. Gen. Salah El Baradei, director of security, the continuing campaign of joint instructions of the police and the supply of education and living in the areas of domestic random and rooftops.

In Sohag, the governor, Major General Mohsen al-Nuamani the execution of all the birds in any spots to prove the existence of the disease in the square kilometer, and the maintenance of the immediate payment of compensation to their owners.

"Dr. Ahmad Badri, Director of Veterinary Medicine, said that during the month of May 31 vaccinated and 985 thousand birds, and the execution of the slaughter of 260 birds and 430 A and the other.

In Damietta, the Teilb Dr. Ashraf, a member of the local town of Damietta, request a briefing to the noble Alqrvs, President of the Council, on the existence of a market place for the birds living within the city during the Thursday and Friday, and the slaughter of birds within the vendor market and the dumping of waste, which threatens an health disaster and the possibility of infection from bird flu.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 05:37:14 AM CDT

Egyptian child contracts bird flu

11:2802/06/2009
CAIRO, June 2 (RIA Novosti) - A child has been diagnosed with bird flu in Egypt and another 39 people have been hospitalized with suspected infections, a spokesman for the country's health ministry said on Tuesday.

A 4-year-old girl from the northern Egyptian province of Kafr El-Sheikh is currently in stable condition and is being treated with antiviral drugs.

Egypt's first case of bird flu was recorded in 2006. Since then, 78 people are known to have contracted the H5N1 virus in the country, and at least 27 have died.

According to World Health Organization data, a total of 262 people have died worldwide since bird flu was first discovered in 2003

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 08:30:53 AM CDT

WHO update 19

http://www.who.int/csr/don/200...

2 June 2009 -- The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza A/H5N1 on 01 June 2009.

The case is a 4-year old female child from the Kefr El Sheikh District of Kefr El Sheikh Governorate. Her symptoms started on 30 May 2009 with fever, cough and sore throat. She was admitted to Kefr El Sheikh Fever Hospital on 31 May 2009. The patient received oseltamivir and is in a stable condition.

Investigations into the source of infection indicated that she had close contact with dead and sick poultry. The case was confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories.

Of the 78 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 27 have been fatal.  

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by: AlohaOR @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 08:56:38 AM CDT

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First swine flu case confirmed in Egypt

12-year-old girl quarantined by health workers at Cairo airport after showing swine flu symptoms.

CAIRO - A girl who had travelled from the United States has been confirmed as having Egypt's first case of swine flu, Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali said on Tuesday.

The 12-year-old with US and Egyptian nationality was quarantined by health workers at Cairo airport on Monday after she showed symptoms of the flu, Gabali said in a statement aired on state television.

The girl and her mother had arrived to spend the summer in Egypt. Her mother was not infected, the minister said.

No other passengers on the flight showed signs of infection with the A(H1N1) virus, he added.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country, has undertaken a controversial cull of the country's estimated 250,000 pigs after initial reports of swine flu outbreaks in other countries.

Local media has reported that more than 150,000 pigs have been culled, and many of them buried in hazardous waste disposal sites.

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 17:45:16 PM CDT

An updated table of confirmed Egypt H5N1 cases

is here.

There have already been more confirmed human H5N1 cases in Egypt this year than in any prior year.

The table includes dates, locations, ages, genders and outcomes. I'm graphically-challenged, so if anyone would like to put the data in a graphic format, either DemFromCT or Bronco Bill can upload it to this diary.

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by: AlohaOR @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 01:01:18 AM CDT

Two Egyptian children positive for bird flu

27/05/2009 11:27  (7 Day 04:11 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- CAIRO, A girl and a boy, both aged four, have been diagnosed with bird flu in the north Egyptian Sharqia Governorate, the MENA news agency reported.

The country's Health Ministry said the children became infected after contact with domestic poultry. They have been hospitalized with high temperatures, but are currently in a stable condition after being treated with the anti-viral drug Tamiflu.

Egypt's first case of bird flu was recorded in 2006. Since then, 76 people have contracted the virus in the country, of whom 27 have died. The latest victim, a four-year-old girl, died on May 28.

According to World Health Organization data, a total of 262 people have died worldwide since bird flu was first discovered in 2003.

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(this story sounds alot like this one:-cottontop)
WHO: Egypt reports 2 cases of bird flu
5/28/2009, 2:50 a.m. PDTThe Associated Press    
(AP) - GENEVA - The World Health Organization says Egypt has reported two new human cases of bird flu.

Both cases involve young children in Sharkia province.

WHO says a 4-year old girl in Abo Hammad district developed symptoms on May 23 and a 4-year old boy in Hehia City fell ill on May 24.

The two have been hospitalized and are being treated with antiviral medication. Their conditions are described as stable.

WHO says investigations show the two had close contact with dead or sick poultry.

The global body said Thursday that Egypt has had 76 confirmed bird flu cases and 27 deaths to date.

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 07:03:19 AM CDT

165 Cases Under Observation for Swine Flu

Thursday, June 4, 2009

In the Governorate of the West ..The development of 165 cases under observation for fear of the swine flu

The Directorate of Health and the Department of Preventive Medicine, a state of 165 coming from the infected pigs infected with bird, and put them under constant surveillance and observation of permanent, as the Directorate of Health received notification of the meeting Sunday attended by ports and airports, the arrival of 165 outlets from the case of many of the swine flu infection, such as: America, Austria, Greece, Italy, France and the United Arab Emirates, Israel and Kuwait.

Were placed under constant surveillance and observation for a period of ten days, the whereabouts of residence, and warned them to turn them to the nearest hospital or was admitted in the case of symptoms.

Medical examination was conducted to contact them, and recording their statements and their daily traffic to check on them.

This was stated by Dr. Sharif Hammouda Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health meeting Sunday attended.

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by: cottontop @ Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 18:04:41 PM CDT

Egypt announced on 79 cases of bird flu

Egypt announced on 79 cases of bird flu

The Egyptian Ministry of Health on the case Thursday, No. 79 bird flu virus, "said the 5 H 1" of a child, aged five months.

A statement issued by the Ministry of Health said the No. 79 for a child, Ahmed Issa, the village of Albesartp northern Delta province of Damietta, adding that the situation of the child stable. The statement said that the symptoms appeared to the child earlier this month and entered the hospital fevers Damietta with a fever, running nose and a rise in temperature after the coming of the birds suspected of being infected with bird flu.

The statement emphasized that the child is in stable condition, were given the drug "Tamiflu" as soon as a suspected bird flu patient was carried out the necessary tests, and today confirmed his illness, and is now being transferred to hospital in the capital Cairo for the completion of treatment. Egypt has announced the injury on Tuesday, No. 78 of bird flu Egyptian girl, aged 4 years from the province of Kafr el-Sheikh al-Sheikh in Egypt.
This brings the number of cases of bird flu to 79 since the emergence of the virus in Egypt in February 2006.

Most people living in Egypt had been in contact with infected domestic birds in a country where the adoption of the family of about five million chickens in the backyard, as an important source of food and income.

The World Health Organization said last month it was feared that some of the Egyptians may have the bird flu virus without showing any symptoms, which may give the virus a greater chance of turning into a strain easily spread among humans.

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by: cottontop @ Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 18:30:40 PM CDT

2 swine flu cases at American University in Cairo

The Associated Press
Published: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 12:59 a.m.
CAIRO - The American University in Cairo says a dorm building housing foreigners is being quarantined for 24 hours after two American students were diagnosed with swine flu.

Rehab Saad from the university's public relations office said Monday the two cases were discovered Sunday night along with a third suspected case. All three have been hospitalized.

The dorm in the Zamalek area of Cairo houses about 100 students.

It was not known where the students contracted the disease.

Egypt announced its first confirmed swine flu case June 2 after an Egyptian-American girl arriving in the country tested positive.

Egypt's government has come under criticism for its decision to slaughter the nation's pigs in response to the swine flu problem.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 07:27:13 AM CDT

Egypt quarantines dorm after new flu cases

Jun 08, 2009 at 09:44

Two U.S. students at the American University in Cairo have been diagnosed with swine flu, the university said on Monday, with their dormitory under quarantine after a third suspected case was discovered.

"There are two American students who came here on May 28 and the ministry of health has confirmed that they are sick with the A(H1N1) virus," university spokeswoman Rehab Saad told news agency AFP.

The two students are being treated in hospital along with a third suspected infected American, Saad said, adding that their dormitory on the central Cairo island of Zamalek had been placed under quarantine.
"The dorm of around 140 has been quarantined for 24 hours, the ministry of health is taking samples and the results are expected soon," Saad said.

A 12-year-old girl who had travelled from the United States last week became Egypt and Africa's first case of swine flu.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country, began a controversial cull of the country's estimated 250,000 pigs after initial reports of swine flu outbreaks in other countries.

The World Health Organisation has said the drastic measure is not scientifically justified.
Egyptian media have reported that more than 150,000 pigs have been culled so far, with many of them later buried in hazardous waste disposal sites.

The authorities have stepped up measures to check travellers at airports for the virus, quarantining suspected cases in makeshift centres.

Egypt is already battling bird flu, which has killed 27 people since it was first reported in 2006.
In rural areas poultry are traditionally raised on rooftops, often in close proximity to young children, many of whom have become victims of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 07:46:31 AM CDT

Five more cases of swine flu in Cairo

1 hour ago

CAIRO (AFP) - Five new cases of swine flu infection were discovered at a Cairo campus dormitory on Tuesday, Egypt's health minister Hatem el-Gabali told state-news agency MENA.

The American University of Cairo's campus residence in the upscale neighbourhood of Zamelek was quarantined on Monday after two American students were found to be infected with the A(H1N1) virus.

Health workers took samples from the dormitory's 140 residents following the outbreak and the university announced it would suspend classes until Sunday.
Gabali did not give the nationalities of the five other students found to be infected by the virus.
The latest cases bring the number of swine flu infections to eight in Egypt, where the government undertook a cull of the country's pigs after reports of outbreaks in other countries.

The authorities have stepped up checks of travellers at airports, quarantining those suspected to be infected in makeshift centres.
Egypt is already battling the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed 27 people since it was first reported in 2006.

Swine flu has now spread to 73 countries with 25,288 people known to have been infected and 139 to have died since the disease was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 at 07:12:40 AM CDT

25 Bird- Flu Suspected Cases

25 Bird- Flu Suspected Cases Held In 4 Governorates

By   Al-Masry Al-Yaum- Governorates    10/ 6/ 2009

Dr. Abd-al-Salam Mahjub, minister of local development, declared that the Supreme Committee for Bird- flu Combating will hold an abrupt meeting within hours to discuss the bird- flu unpleasant situation, adding that new measures will be taken to restrain the disease.

Meanwhile, 25 bird- flu suspected cases have been kept in hospital, 11 in Mansura Chest Hospital, 7 cases in Minya, 6 in Bihirah and 1 case in Asyut.

In Qalyubiyah, the governor, chancellor 'Adli Hasan, decided to close down 12 poultry farms in Al-Qanatir Al-Khayriyah and Kafr Shukr because the owners of these farms are accused of selling infected poultry. Around 100 thousand birds have been burned.

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 10:20:26 AM CDT

Swine flu fear grips Egypt...

Swine flu fear grips Egypt quarantine on university hostile extended

Egypt - The American University in Cairo (AUC) on Tuesday evening extended the quarantine on their student dormitory for one week, after five more students were feared to have con tracted the H1N1 flu, the university said.

The new cases bring the total number of students feared to be infected with the swine flu virus to seven, and that number is expected to rise as at least two cases outside the university were reported across Egypt on Wednesday.

All the affected seven students are Americans who recently arrived in Egypt.

Police were seen guarding the entrance to the 7-storey concrete building in Cairo's upscale Zamalek neighborhood, and they have barred journalists from taking pictures of the facility.

"Tests for the H1N1 flu taken from residents of the American University in Cairo dormitory have resulted in five additional confirmed cases," the university said in a letter sent to faculty members, a copy of which was obtained by PANA.

"On the basis of the new cases, the quarantine for the dormitory has been extend ed until June 15th," the letter said.

On Monday, Egyptian and university authorities ordered a 24-hour quarantine of the dormitory, which houses mainly foreign students and faculty, after two students who recently arrived from the United States tested p ositive for the virus.

But according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Egypt has only one confirmed case of influenza A (H1N1).

The latest WHO figures show that 25,288 cases of H1N1 infection have been recorded in 73 countries, with 139 deaths recorded.

Egypt, hard hit by the more deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, detected its first suspected H1N1 case last week in a 12-year-old American girl, who arrived for a holiday in the most populous Arab country.

Cairo - 10/06/2009

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 10:32:26 AM CDT

Two more cases of A/H1N1 flu confirmed in Egypt

CAIRO, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Two more A/H1N1 cases were confirmed in Egypt bringing the total number of infections in the populous country to 10 cases, spokesman of Minster of health Abdel Rahman Shahine said in a statement on Wednesday.

According to the statement, the two cases are an Egyptian and an American, who returned recently from the United States. The first case is an American engineer, who began to develop symptoms on June 9 after arriving on June 7.

he second case is an Egyptian citizen, who arrived in Alexandria on June 4 and began to develop symptoms on June 8. Both were hospitalized and in stable condition.

Egypt reported seven A/H1N1 flu cases at a dorm of the American University in Cairo (AUC), the health ministry said Monday it will quarantine the dorm for seven days, which accommodates 110 students and 124 teachers.

On June 2, Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 influenza case, which was a 12-year-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country that was hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all the pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu.

Worldwide, about 27,000 people in 73 countries have been confirmed to be infected with the A/H1N1 flu virus, the latest WHO tally showed on Monday.

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 10:36:31 AM CDT

WHO declares H1N1 global pandemic, Egypt reports 2 new cases

By Yasmine Saleh
First Published: June 11, 2009
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.c...

CAIRO: The World Health Organization declared its first influenza pandemic in 40 years after an emergency meeting of scientific experts Thursday on a swine flu outbreak which has hit 74 countries.

On the same day, the Egyptian Ministry of Health reported two new cases of swine flu in Egypt, bringing the total to 12.

The wife of the American engineer who had tested positive for the H1N1 virus on Wednesday, also tested positive on Thursday, Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesperson of Ministry of Health said.

She is a 34-year-old Colombian citizen who arrived to Cairo from the United States with her husband on June 7. She is receiving treatment at Al-Sadr Hospital in Abbasiya with her husband.

Both husband and wife are in a stable condition, Shahin said.

The test results for the 20 people who have interacted with the couple since they came to Egypt came negative.

The second case is of one-and-a-half-year-old child, the son of the Egyptian man who tested positive for the virus in Alexandria on Wednesday, Shahin said.

The child arrived to Cairo from the US on June 7 and experienced flu-like symptoms while traveling to Alexandria. He was admitted to a hospital in the coastal city and tested positive for the virus.

According to Shahin, the child's condition is stable. His mother and all the people he interacted with, including those on the same flight to Egypt, are being tested. The results are yet to be announced.

The seven cases that were discovered earlier this week are all recovering, he said.

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In Egypt, rumors were spreading like wildfire, but officials were quick to respond.

Shahin denied rumors about the Ministry of Health's plans to close metro stations because of swine flu.

He also refuted rumors that suggested the ministry had closed down the McDonald's branch on Nasr Street in Maadi after one of its staff tested positive for the virus.

According to an official statement sent by McDonald's Egypt to Daily News Egypt, all shops and restaurants on Nasr Street were closed on Wednesday for one hour after an American engineer, who works in an oil company in Maadi, tested positive for the virus.

"We would like to state very clearly that McDonald's Maadi Branch has resumed operation [since Wednesday] and there have been no cases of H1N1 at any of McDonald's branches and that as standard our restaurants and all members of staff practice the highest standard of hygiene," the statement said.

"The current status of the disease [H1N1 flu] in Egypt does not require any special precautionary measure," Shahin said.

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by: Pixie @ Thu Jun 11, 2009 at 15:28:29 PM CDT

Egypt hunts last pigs as three new swine flu cases confirmed

Egypt hunts last pigs as three new swine flu cases confirmed

Posted : Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:05:45 GMT
Author : DPA  

Cairo - 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.

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by: cottontop @ Fri Jun 12, 2009 at 13:42:42 PM CDT

"efforts to hunt down , , , last surviving pigs"

Insane. Simply insane.  How much food have they deliberately removed from people's tables?

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by: Bronco Bill @ Fri Jun 12, 2009 at 14:48:43 PM CDT

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Egypt flu cases rise to 18

CAIRO - EGYPT reported three new cases of swine flu on Saturday, as two Egyptian children and a Colombian woman tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus, bringing to 18 the total.
A health ministry official was quoted by state news agency Mena as saying the new cases had recently arrived from Canada and the United States, but provided no details on their ages or condition.

An American University of Cairo residence in the upscale neighbourhood of Zamalek remains under quarantine after six American students and one teaching assistant were found to have been infected with the virus last week.

The university, which has suspended classes, says courses will resume on Monday, when the quarantine is due to be lifted.

Egypt, which decided to cull its estimated 250,000 pigs after reports of outbreaks in other countries, has not taken any new measures since the World Health Organisation announced a swine flu pandemic on Thursday.

Authorities check travellers at airports and quarantine those who exhibit flu symptoms.

Egypt reported its and the continent's first case on June 2, when a 12-year-old girl travelling from the United States tested positive.

The country is already battling the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed 27 people since it was first reported in 2006. -- AFP

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by: cottontop @ Sat Jun 13, 2009 at 12:49:44 PM CDT

Swine flu a scapegoat for killing off the pork industry?

At the entrance to Manshiet Nasser, police at a blockade check every person coming in and out of the neighborhood. Along the narrow streets and alleys of the "garbage city" at the base of Moqattam, residents are huddled in groups, the fears of an uncertain future on every face. Others are hard at work, dwarfed by the piles of trash that they sift through by hand, separating empty bottles from crumpled cartons and leftover food scraps.

Home to at least 30,000 people, Manshiet Nasser's community of zabaleen, or garbage collectors, is the largest of the nation's so-called garbage cities. In a capital that produces some 25,000 tons of refuse each day, the zabaleen are grassroots recyclers who earn a living selling plastic, glass and cardboard to companies that will reprocess the material into new goods. The organic waste goes to feed the zabaleen's other industry - pig farms that are the sole supplier of the nation's market for pork products.

The future of that market, and of the zabaleen themselves, is uncertain. On April 29, amid growing international concern about Influenza A (H1N1), better known as swine flu, Minister of Health and Population Hatem El-Gabali announced a cull of the nation's nearly 350,000 pigs. Local pig farmers and butchers were outraged at El-Gabali's decision, calling it brutal and unfair, and insisting their animals were clean. At press time, swine flu has already been blamed for the deaths of at least 97 people around the world, with approximately 12,954 confirmed cases in 46 countries. The first cases were reported in Mexico at the end of April. As the virus spread, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the pandemic flu alert to level five, one step below the highest level.

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According to the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE), there are six to eight garbage cities throughout the country; Cairo's Manshiet Nasser is the largest of them. Pigs are raised in all the garbage cities, including Moqattam, Baragil near Imbaba, and Fifteenth of May City in Helwan. Shahin estimates that there are 350,000-500,000 pigs in the country; at press time, some 104,000 of them had been slaughtered.

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For most zabaleen, garbage collecting and pig farming are the only trades they know, and are their main sources of income. Killing the pigs will turn the farmers into beggars, angry Manshiet Nasser residents told Egypt Today, threatening to stop collecting garbage.

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by: cottontop @ Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 07:25:48 AM CDT

H5N1 in birds

Most recent (May) results of H5N1 testing in animals from the SAIDR website:

• Alexandria governorate: Al Sabaheia district, Abeis village (May 12)
• Gharbiya governorate: Al Mahala al Kobra district, Mahalet al Kasab village (May 6); Mehala Kobra district, Senedis village (May 12)
• Giza governorate: Giza City, Haram  section, Taawen urban area (May 21)
• Kafr el Sheikh governorate, Kafr el Sheikh district, Al Gwahergi - Al Hamra village (May 7)
• Luxor governorate, Luxor district, Al Meries village (May 2)
• Menoufiya governorate, Sadat district, Adnan Madani village (May 7)
• Port Said governorate: Port Said district, El Asher village (May 20)
• Qalyoubia governorate: Kafr Shokr district, Isunit village (May 7); Kafr Shokr district, Isunit village (May 10); Al Kanater al Khairia district, Abu el Gheit village (May 11); Kafr Shokr district, Kafr al Walga village (May 13); Banha district, Nuqbas village/city (May 18); Bandar Banha district, Kafr Saad village/city/quarter (May 26); Banha district, Gamgara village/city/quarter (May 28)
• Sharkia governorate: Kafr Sakr district, Abo Omran village (May 15)
• Sixth of October governorate: Al Badrachin district, Kom el Hawa village (May 8); Al Badrachin district, Kom el Hawa village (May 12)
• Sohag governorate: Tanta district, Om Doma village (May 12); Sohag district, Rawafe' Elkosseir village (May 20)

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by: AlohaOR @ Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 18:50:36 PM CDT

Egypt reports three more cases of A/H1N1

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"-Egyptian Health authorities announced on Monday three new cases of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the number of such cases to 23 in the populous Arab country, Ministry of health said in statement.

According to the statement, two cases are for an American woman, 38 years old, and her daughter, 13 years old, who arrived from the United States on June 5, while the third case is a Sudanese woman,49 years old.

The three cases were hospitalized in where they received Tamiflu and their conditions were stable..."

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 11:16:16 AM CDT

Three new cases of H1N1 flu surface in Egypt

By Safaa Abdoun / Daily News Egypt
First Published: June 16, 2009
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CAIRO: Egypt's Ministry of Health announced three new cases of swine flu on Tuesday afternoon, pushing the total number of reported cases up to 26.

Health Ministry Spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahin said the news cases involved: the Sudanese mother, 22, of the 14-month-old-boy that tested positive for H1N1 late Sunday; another Sudanese woman, 24, who accompanied them from Canada on June 11 on KLM airline; and an eight-year-old Egyptian-American who arrived to Cairo from the US on June 13.

The last patient first displayed flu-like symptoms on June 14 and is currently being treated at an Egyptian hospital.

Two Italians who were suspected of having swine flu tested negative for H1N1 and left the Hurghada General Hospital, according to Mohamed Rifai, director of the preventive medicine administration at the Red Sea Health Directorate.

In related news, Jordan's Minister of Health Naif Al Fayez, announced on Tuesday that Jordan has identified its first two cases of the H1N1 flu virus in two young women who arrived from the United States last week.

On the same day, Qatar announced its first two cases of H1N1 flu in two foreign children who arrived from the United States and Austria.

Egypt was clear of swine flu until June 1. The first 12 cases have been cured and left the hospital, the remaining patients are all in stable condition and are receiving Tamiflu treatment.

The Ministry of Health did not decree any stringent regulations to contain the virus, only advising citizens to open windows in public transport and avoid crowded areas.

In an interesting note, BBC Scotland's health correspondent Eleanor Bradford said in the article "Your Swine Flu Questions Answered," in which she answers readers' inquiries, "To put it in context, you're far more likely to be run over by a car in Egypt (or Scotland, for that matter) than to get swine flu."

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by: Pixie @ Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 12:55:00 PM CDT

Egypt confirms new bird flu case

18/06/2009 10:27  (

The FINANCIAL -- CAIRO, An 18-month-old boy has been diagnosed with bird flu in Egypt, marking the country's 81st confirmed human avian influenza case, a spokesman for the country's health ministry said on June 17.

The boy from the northern Egyptian province of Kafr El-Sheikh contracted the H5N1 virus after coming into contact with infected poultry. He was hospitalized in a stable condition.  

At least 27 people have died of avian influenza in Egypt since the deadly virus was first detected in the country in 2006.  

According to World Health Organization data, at least 262 people have died worldwide since bird flu was first discovered in 2003.

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by: cottontop @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 07:10:15 AM CDT

4 detention of children for suspected bird flu

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 16:43

Detained hospital admitted Tanta 4 children for suspected bird flu patients, after the emergence of symptoms of high fever and shortness of breath, and children are: Ibrahim Mohammed two years, the village of Simla Qtor Center, Nour Essam Zakaria (3 years) Mehalla village boys, Osama Ahmed Shanawi (two years) Mahala, Mohamed Nabih Saad (5 years) the village of Mehalla Dnucheh too.

Blood samples were taken of them and melancholy hours and sent to the central laboratory to demonstrate the extent of illness or not.  This was stated by Dr. Sharif Hammouda Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health meeting Sunday attended, and added that there were 4 other cases were negative, and was allowed to leave as soon as their condition improved.

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by: cottontop @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 17:34:18 PM CDT

30 friend of the family of Sudanese affected

Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 15:07

Written by Amira Abdel-Salam
Ministry of Health announced today, Thursday, the high number of cases of infected pigs to avian case of the registration of 30 new cases today, the Sudanese woman, a Canadian citizenship.

Came to Egypt to visit family Sudanese infected, moving infection following an injury to the child and his grandmother from the same family, the disease was transferred to a hospital in Cairo for treatment and given the drug "Tamiflu", and in stable condition.

(cottontop translation- A Canadian woman visiting family in Egypt was infected or became infected with H1N1, and infected the family she visited. The woman was taken to a hopital in Cairo and given Tamiflu. She is in stable condition.)

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by: cottontop @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 18:49:25 PM CDT

25 detained of Bird Flu suspicion

25 detained in 6 provinces on suspicion of bird flu

6-19-2009

Detained in hospital diets 6 provinces of the case 25 on suspicion of being infected with bird flu symptoms, in the lake, Dr. Yosri Congratulations, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health in the county, the hospital admitted Damanhour arrested 9 suspected cases of the disease.

In the West held hospital admitted Tanta and Mahala 5 cases, were given the drug Tamiflu, and samples were taken from them, Minya hospital diets detained 4 suspected cases of bird flu.

DAMIETTA detained in hospital following the diets of 3 diagnosed with high temperature, running nose and cough have been sampling them for analysis, and Dakahliya detained in Mansoura Chest Hospital Hassan Shehata hope «14 years», and Adham Ayman Abdul Rauf «3 years» and Alaa Tariq Abdullah «5 years» Center Ghamr.

After ascertaining that Mkhaltthm birds dead, detained in hospital fevers QENA Humadi succeeded Yasser Mustafa Abdulnabi, «two», from the village of pacifism, and the straw was the removal of 18 birds for the breeding of domestic control Jailin 5 vendors and the execution of 500 birds.

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by: cottontop @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 13:50:30 PM CDT

Five more A/H1N1 cases confirmed in Egypt

21/Jun/09

CAIRO, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Five more A/H1N1 flu cases were confirmed in Egypt, bringing the total number of infections in the populous country to 39 cases, Egyptian Ministry of Health announced on its official website on Sunday.

According the website, the five cases are coming from the United States and Canada and were hospitalized and they are in stable condition now.

Meanwhile, the Ministry said that 26 cases were totally cured.

On June 2, Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 influenza case, which was a 12-year-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country that was hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all the pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu.

According to the latest tally by the World Health Organization, 95 countries and regions have officially reported at least 44,287 cases of influenza A/H1N1 infection, including 180 deaths.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 07:57:32 AM CDT

Another swine flu case discovered in Egypt, total at 40

CAIRO, June 22 (KUNA) -- Egyptian health authorities announced Monday the discovery of yet another infectee of the A/H1N1 virus, bringing the total cases of swine flu in the country to 40.

Health Ministry spokesman Dr. Abdulrahman Shaheen said in a press release that the infectee, a 13-year-old girl who had flown into Cairo with her family from the US two days ago, had been referred to hospital yesterday.

The girl's situation was described as "stable" and that she was undergoing treatment.

The spokesman noted that the girl's sister had been confirmed case number 35.

Moreover, two cases had fully recovered and were discharged from hospital. (end) rg.ema KUNA 221507 Jun 09NNNN

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 08:11:27 AM CDT

Egypt reports first swine flu case in Mecca pilgrim

Egypt reports first swine flu case in Mecca pilgrim

28-year-old Egyptian man contracts A(H1N1) virus performing Muslim pilgrimage Umra.

CAIRO - Egypt has confirmed the first swine flu case in an Egyptian returning from Saudi Arabia after performing the Muslim pilgrimage, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 28-year-old man was found to have contracted the A(H1N1) virus during Umra, or lesser pilgrimage, to Mecca, health ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahin said, quoted by the state-owned daily Al-Akhbar.

"The young man, who arrived in Egypt on Tuesday, was transferred to hospital and is now in stable condition," Shahin said.

Health ministry officials had warned of the dangers posed by swine flu to millions of Muslim pilgrims travelling to Saudi Arabia.

Egypt's top cleric, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, said he would not issue a decree barring Egyptians from making the pilgrimage, but health officials said all returning pilgrims would be quarantined.
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by: mojo @ Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 08:19:01 AM CDT

Egypt reports five more cases of A/H1N1 flu

27/Jun/09

CAIRO, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Egypt reported on Saturday five more cases of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the total number of the flu in the populous country to 55, according to the Ministry of Health.

The five cases include a 19-year-old Egyptian girl, a 12-year-old Egyptian-American boy, a 20-year-old Philippine man, a 19-year-old Thai and a 47-year-old Palestinian man coming from the United States, Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine said in a statement.

The spokesman said that the health conditions of the five patients are stable after proper treatment.

On June 2, Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 flu case, which was a 12-years-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country that was hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu.

According to the World Health Organization, more than 59,000 people were infected with A/H1N1 flu worldwide and at least 260 people have died from the new disease.

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by: cottontop @ Sun Jun 28, 2009 at 09:04:27 AM CDT

Detained 12 people suspect Bird flu

Detained 12 people suspected of having bird flu in the lake, Menya
Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 14:45

Shaaban, Hassan Fathy Abdel-Ghaffar
Damanhour hospital fevers were detained 6 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.

Received the Major General, Magdi Abu Amar, director of security of the lake, a notice of the detention hospital fevers Damanhour Norhan Ibrahim Mustafa (8 months), Nazime Thaki Ahmed (21 years), the gift of Mostafa Ibrahim (3 years), Maha Hassan Mohamed (22 years), and Hind Fawzi Salim ( 16 years), and Randa Ramadan al-Banna (18 years), and suspected of having avian flu
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.

Also detained a hospital fevers Minia 6 cases, including 4 children with suspected infected birds after they Onfeloznra shortness of breath and high temperature, they Mnjp Kahol Abdul Hamid, 29 years old, from Alharawip Samalut Shahinaz charity and Fuad, Ittsa Samalut and Hassan Musa Hassan, the 41-year-presses Mallawi and dreams of Mohammed Issa, a two and a half, and her sister Fatima, 6 years, Basma, 18, from al-Hamdi Bmiloy samples were taken and sent to labs central Cairo to ensure that negative results with the auspices of the hospital cases and provide first aid until the receipt of the results of the samples.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 07:25:56 AM CDT

3 brothers detained on suspicion of bird flu

Monday, June 29, 2009 - 11:53
Detained hospital fevers Minya 3 brothers are Reza Mohammed Hassanein (5 years) and Kareem Mohamed Hassanein (two years), and any sister (9 years) from the village or the status of Mallawi Qamas for suspected bird flu patients.

The three brothers were shortness of breath, high temperature, leading to their detention in the hospital and the work of first aid and taking a sample to be sent to central laboratories to ensure that the result of analysis.

States that the hospital received on Sunday, 6 cases, including 4 children, of whom samples were taken to ensure that the result of the sample, which confirmed Dr. Osama Tuhami, director of the hospital to receive the flu every day, many of the cases, however, that all results are negative

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 06:10:08 AM CDT

Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 20

1 July 2009 -- The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported 3 new confirmed human case of avian influenza A(H5N1).

The first case is a 1-year old male from Domiat Governorate. His symptoms started on 1 June 2009. He was admitted to hospital on 2 June, where he received oseltamivir treatment. The patient has recovered and was discharged on 9 June.

The second case is a 4-year old female from Dakhlia Governorate. Her symptoms started on 5 June 2009. She was admitted to hospital on 6 June, where she received oseltamivir treatment. The patient has recovered and was discharged on 14 June.

The third case is a 1-year old male from Kaleen District, Kefr El Sheikh Governorate. His symptoms started on 15 June 2009. He was admitted to Kefr El Sheikh Fever Hospital on 16 June 2009, where he received oseltamivir treatment, and is in a stable condition.

Investigations into the source of infection indicated that all three cases had close contact with dead and/or sick poultry.

The cases were confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories.

Of the 81 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 27 have been fatal.

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 12:48:21 PM CDT

One new case; two previously-reported

Thanks to cottontop's diligent news-hounding, FW Forum readers already new about two of these cases:

5-month-old child from Domiat/Damietta was reported here on June 4

18-month old boy from Kafr/Kefr el-Sheikh was reported here on June 18

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Detained: One citizen and French tourist suspicion of SF

Detention of a citizen and a French tourist returning from Kuwait on suspicion of swine flu
01/Jul/09

Detained by the quarantine authorities of Hurghada international airport, tourists, Jean-Robert French-called «23 years» on suspicion of swine flu.

Said Dr. Hussam Abdo, director of Hurghada General Hospital, said that tourists were booking the hotel in an isolation ward in hospital in stable condition, and samples were sent for analysis to the central Ministry of Health laboratories.

Hospital admitted and detained Mustafa El Sayed Mustafa «29 years» on suspicion of being infected with the disease, and found his return from Kuwait City last June 26 with a severe rise in temperature, running nose and a sore throat, and the hospital decided to remove him.

With regard to avian flu, fevers Minya hospital detained 5 suspected cases of the disease, including 3 from one family  in Minya fevers: the Ramadan Mohamed Ismail «48 years», and two daughters Habiba «4 years» and the joy of «9 years», Osman Abdul Salam behind «26 year », and the magic of Mohammad Hassan« 27 years ».

In the lake held Damanhour hospital admitted cases of suspected infected with the disease are: Hussein Abdel-Latif nostalgia «18 months» Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim Yusuf «24 years».

In Alexandria, 31 shops have been seized and 13 Vrcha for the sale of birds without a license and the 3259 execution of the transfer of birds and 32 bird trader on behalf of the Assembly after Vdahm red wax seals of shops and resale them.

In Menoufiya, were arrested the driver of the car a quarter of the transfer and possession of 39 live ducks, and filed a report on administrative Alpajur No. 3788, prosecutors decided to execute the cemetery seizures in healthy safe Alpajur.

In Aswan, Mr. Mustafa, the governor has decided to tighten procedures to address the risk of the spread of epidemics and infectious diseases, summer, and the formation of a higher committee headed by Dr. Hussein Thtauy, Artistic Director of the Office of the Governor and the membership of health managers, supply and preservation of the environment for a review of all requirements of health and environment shop, bakeries, markets, restaurants and food stores all at the level of the province.

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by: cottontop @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 05:29:59 AM CDT

4 suspected cases of bird flu

Friday, July 3, 2009 - 20:21
Lake - Fathy Shaaban

Detained hospital fevers Damanhour 4 cases of suspected bird flu, after the emergence of the disease with similar symptoms of fever and pain in bones, severe stress and difficulty in breathing.

Said Dr. Yusri Congratulations Deputy Minister of Health that the lake cases are: Abd al-Halim Abu Shawkat (30 years), and Randa Ramadan al-Banna (18 years), of which Allam Adly (two years), Ahmad Abdul Rahim (13 years), had been detained in hospital After taking a blood sample for analysis, including central labs in Cairo.

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by: cottontop @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 19:16:44 PM CDT

5 suspected cases of bird flu children Behira

Sunday, July 5, 2009 - 16:05

Lake Sha'baan Fathi

Detained hospital fevers Damanhour, 5 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.

Major-General received the Director Majdi Abu Amar security lake, a notification from the hospital fevers suspected injury Damanhour Hendawi Yasser Ahmed (7 months), Saad Reda Gomaa (9 years), Alaa El-Said, Secretary (18 month), Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim (3 years), the Q's Fri (3 years), 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.

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by: cottontop @ Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 18:29:21 PM CDT

Egypt reports one more case of A/H1N1

www.chinaview.cn 2009-07-06 21:30:59
CAIRO, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Egypt reported on Monday one more case of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the total number of the flu in the populous country to 79, Ministry of Health said in a statement.

According to the statement, the new case was a 8-years-old Egyptian student arrived in Cairo on June 30 from Greece.
The health condition of the new case is stable after proper treatment. Spokesman of Health Ministry Abdel Rahman Shahine said that 68 cases have been cured.
Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 flu case on June 2, who was a 12-years-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country that was hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu A/H1N1.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the disease has infected more than 94,000 worldwide and killed more than 400.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 20:29:25 PM CDT

Possible two cases of resistance to the drug Tamiflu

Health recognize two cases of resistance to the drug Tamiflu,

5/Jul/09
Increased numbers of bird infected pigs until yesterday 74 case of, after the discovery of two new, initial Egyptian girl coming from Britain, and the second of a young man from Chile.. case has been transferred to hospital diets, stable health condition. 58 16. »«.
Dr Rahman Shahin, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, healing 58 case of, still 16 case of treatment under. acknowledged representative of the Ministry of Health in the operating room Cabinet discovery of two drug Mquaomtin » Tamiflu « spokesman denied the reports of the resistance to the drug for all patients, and he proved the effectiveness of an absolute in all cases except for cases only.. and pointed out that the resistance of some patients to the drug is contained and dealt with in accordance with generally accepted norms of medical.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 20:31:59 PM CDT

4 suspected cases of swine flu

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 17:10

Detained Kafr Al-Dawar General Hospital, Lake County, 4 people, including two children after their return from performing Umrah on suspicion of contracting the disease, swine flu.

A d. Yosri Congratulations, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health to preserve, said the hospital had been detained four suspected of contracting the disease after an outbreak of swine flu symptoms are similar to the symptoms, he said, adding that the case is retained innocent girl named Ashraf (9 months) and Nada Sharaf (4 years), and Mr. Abdul Wahab (33 years), and Ines Mansour (31 years).

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 05:50:55 AM CDT

2 Suspected of Bird Flu (H5N1) in Menya

Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 12:56

Egypt: 2 Suspected of Bird Flu (H5N1) in Menya
The detention of two suspected bird flu

Detained hospital fevers Menya Soukra Mohammed Khidr (42 years), and Sarah Salih Jaber (9 years) from the village of Samalut Gulwsna Center, following up on injured temperature, where the work of the hospital first aid, a sample was taken and sent to labs central Cairo.

Dr. Osama Tuhami emphasized the fight against avian influenza Director that there was an awareness of citizens and doctors at health units, so the numbers have decreased, which was received at the hospital every day.

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by: cottontop @ Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 06:07:58 AM CDT

Controlling Avian and Pandemic Influenza: Current Activities and Preparedness

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Powerpoint slides presented by the Ministry of Health at the SAIDR partners' strategic review, June 22-23.  (SAIDR = Strengthening Avian Influenza Detection and Response)

Slides 5-9 contain graphs and maps of confirmed human H5N1 cases in Egypt, including age distribution, a graph showing 4 waves of cases, and information on poultry exposure.

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by: AlohaOR @ Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 09:37:38 AM CDT

Death of child suspect H5N1

The death of a child in the «Fayyoum» After entering «fever» on suspicion b «avian flu 8 and detention in Menya, Damietta

Mohammad Farghali, Theresa Kamal Nasser reagent 7-12-2009

The Directorate of Health in Fayoum, yesterday, the death of Karim Habashi Abdaltwab «6 years» from the village of Nohor Marine Center Snurs, after entering the hospital for fever in a suspected symptoms of avian flu, "said Dr Hussein Sophie Abutaleb, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health to preserve, the Fayoum General Hospital referred to «fever» after suffering from shortness of breath, severe Zarkan Parties, following the dismissal of 15 minutes of the doctors could not succor after being completely comatose.

In Minya, fever hospital, detained 6 suspected cases of bird flu, including 5 children, also held strong General Hospital Minya police named Mohamed Azhari Abdalmaz «21 years» Obokerkas Center, on suspicion of being infected with swine flu, and found that the place of work at Cairo airport.  The hospital admitted DAMIETTA detained two suspected SARS symptoms similar to bird flu.

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 07:22:01 AM CDT

3 brothers suspect H5N1

3 detained in Port Said brothers on suspicion of bird flu
2009 - 16:18 Monday, July 13, 2009 - 16:18

Port Said hospital fevers detained three brothers from one family, after showing symptoms of suspected bird flu was found during the medical examination of each of the Mohammed Atef, aged one year and Ahmed, 13, and Mahmoud, 15 years, who were accompanied by their father Atef Abdul Hamid, they are of very high temperature and pain in bones, sore throat and lack of breathing.

The hospital admitted Tanta detained two new cases of suspected infected with avian flu symptoms after an outbreak of the disease was confined to the places allocated to it and take a blood sample and swab hours and sent to central laboratories to ascertain the extent of illness or not.

Rehab was the detention of Mr. Mohamed Ali Ahmed, 11, a pupil from the village of dead marine Habish and Zeinab Shawki decorated, 3 years, from the village of Mit Hashim Smonod Center, was given the drug Tamiflu until Rord result of their own samples and indicate the extent of illness or not.

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 08:09:02 AM CDT

Egypt reports five more cases of A/H1N1 flu

www.chinaview.cn  2009-07-13 03:19:35

CAIRO, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Egypt reported five more cases of influenza A/H1N1 on Sunday, bringing the total number of the flu in the populous country to 97, according to the Ministry of Health.

The first case was a 27-year-old Indian man who just came from South Africa, the second was a six-year-old Egyptian boy who contacted other cases, and the third was a 14-year-old Egyptian, Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine said in a statement.

The fourth case was a British engineer (59) who worked in Cairo and the fifth was an Egyptian woman (27) who returned from London recently, said the spokesman.

The health condition of the new cases is stable after proper treatment, said Shahine, adding that about 79 of the country's total 97 cases have recovered.

Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 flu case on June 2, a 12-year-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu A/H1N1.

So far the new flu virus has caused more than 100,000 laboratory-confirmed infections in some 136 countries and regions, with 440 deaths, according to latest figures provided by the World Health Organization, which on June 11 formally announced the first pandemic in the 21st century.

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 08:22:12 AM CDT

Monthly HPAI Report

http://www.saidr.org/docs/pdf/... (pdf file)

Table of H5N1 outbreaks in birds is on page 3, and includes 17 poultry outbreaks in 9 governorates:

Beheira governorate

• Abo Elmatamir district, Abo Elmatamir village, 20 ducks & chickens at a household, June 24
• Kafr Eldawar district, Elmofti village, ducks, geese & chickens at a household, June 26
• Rashid district, Elboussily village, 20 ducks at a household, June 26

Dakahlia governorate

• El-Gamalia district, Mit MargaSalsil village, ducks, geese & chicken at a household, June 3
• Timai Elamdid district, Ezbet Abo Megahed Elsafa village, 184 ducks, geese & chickens at a household, June 7
• Timai Elamdid district, Zafr village, 23 ducks and chickens at a household, June 15
• Meniat Elnasr district, Mit Hadid village, 88 mixed poultry at a household, June 8

Dumyat governorate

• Dumyat district, Ezab Elbasarita village, chickens at a household, June 4

Gharbia governorate

• ELsanta district, Elmonshaa village, 7 ducks at a household, June 2

Qalubia governorate

• Toukh district, Mit kenana village, 5,000 layer chickens at a farm, June 2
• Kafr Shoukr district, Asnit village, 6,000 broiler chickens at a farm, June 6
• Kafr Shoukr district, Asnit village, 3,000 layer breeder chickens at a farm, June 9
• Bandr Banha district, Kafr Saad village, 6,000 layer chickens at a farm, June 6 (they had been vaccinated May 30)

Sharkia governorate

• Mashtoul district, 400 chickens from a farm, June 2 (they were caught through illegal transport)

Luxur governorate

• Elbayadia district, El Baghdadi village, 27 chickens at a household, June 16

Suez governorate

• El Ganaien district, Menshiet el rogola village, 18 chickens at a household, June 18

Minufiyah governorate

• El-sadat district, Kafr Dawod village, 12 chickens and turkeys at a household, June 18

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by: AlohaOR @ Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 23:26:05 PM CDT

84 patients recovered from 108 swine flu cases

15/Jul/09

Cabinet: 84 patients recovered from 108 swine flu cases
15/Jul/09

CAIRO - The press statement issued Wednesday by the Center of Information, support and decision-making Council of Ministers that the situation of recovering 84 of the total 108 cases of HIV infected (H 1 - that 1) is known worldwide as the swine flu, so Tuesday, and the rest of the 24 cases and the case has in good health.

The statement said that the situation called for the 103 British citizen aged 15 years, the company of his family from Britain to the international airport of Sharm el-Sheikh on July 13 of this was transferred through a quarantine airport to the hospital and given appropriate treatment and his condition stable.

Case No. 104 for British citizenship 44 years old, the company of his family from Britain to the international airport of Sharm el-Sheikh the day before yesterday, which is linked to a positive epidemiological situation of the past, have been detained in hospital and given appropriate treatment and his condition stable.

In the case of No. 105 is the British nationality of a child at the age of 5 years, the company of his family from Britain to the international airport of Sharm el-Sheikh on July 13, which is linked to the epidemiological situation of a positive precedent, and was detained in hospital and given appropriate treatment and his condition stable.

No. 106 and the situation of a child two-year-old Egyptian national, is linked to infectious cases of a positive precedent, and was detained in Cairo Basmchwy and given appropriate treatment and his condition stable.

The No. 107 Egyptian nationality to a student aged 16 years of Minya province, which is linked to the epidemiological situation of a positive precedent, has been detained in hospital and given appropriate treatment and his condition stable.

The situation called for 108 Egyptian nationality aged 16 years, Minya province, which is linked to the epidemiological situation of a positive precedent, and was detained in hospital and given appropriate treatment and his condition stable.

The press statement issued by the Center of Information, support and decision-making Council of Ministers that were examined 51 suspected case of swine flu in governorates (Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Dakahlia, East, Beni Suef, Gharbia, Damietta, Ismailia, Helwan "The laboratory results were all negative.

Were also examined 24 cases of suspected avian flu from 9 provinces and laboratory results were all negative.

On what was reported in the media claim the affected products from the pig industry financial compensation from the Ministry of Agriculture, it was stressed that the decision of the Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza is to compensate the owners of pig farms, and not only factory owners pig products.

Questions and public opinion on whether there was a laboratory test is to ascertain the incidence of disease, swine flu, the Ministry of Health, there are laboratory examination to be carried out by trained doctors and specialists fever and chest hospitals in all provinces and only for cases of suspected bird flu.

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by: cottontop @ Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 06:28:14 AM CDT

Five new cases of swine flu and the number up to 117 cases

17/Jul/09

CAIRO - Editor Masrawy - The Ministry of Health on Friday the discovery of five new cases infected with "HTML 1 to 1" known media swine flu, bringing the total cases of confirmed infected with the disease, 117 cases so far, have recovered 93 of them, and the rest 24 in good condition.

For his part, Dr. Amr Kandil and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Preventive Affairs that the situation of the first casualties of the new English woman coming to Sharm El-Sheikh, two Egyptians from Cairo, one coming from Saudi Arabia and the other from London, England and the fourth province to come to the October 6, while the fifth is of a woman Colombian coming to Aswan, all in stable condition, and was confined in the hospital in Sharm El-Sheikh, Cairo, and October 6, and Aswan, with drug treatment "Tamvlio."

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by: cottontop @ Sat Jul 18, 2009 at 11:03:26 AM CDT

Three new cases of swine flu and the number up to 120 cases

18/Jul/09

CAIRO - Editor Masrawy - The Ministry of Health, the discovery of three new cases of HIV, "AH-1 The 1" known media swine flu, thereby making the total number of human cases in Egypt to 120 cases so far.

The first case of new infections of the female Egyptian nationality of a 10-year-old from Britain, arrived at Cairo International Airport has been booked on 16/7/2009 County Hospital on October 6 and given appropriate treatment and in stable condition.

The second is to a girl, a British citizenship 26 years later, accompanied by her family from Britain, arrived at the Luxor International Airport on 15/7/2009, which are linked to the epidemiological situation of a positive precedent, the hospital has been seized and given appropriate treatment and in stable condition.

The third British girl sex 26 year old from Britain, arrived at the Luxor International Airport on 15/7/2009 hospital was booked and given appropriate treatment and in stable condition, the epidemiological situation associated with a positive precedent.

Recalled that a total of 106 cases of healing and the rest of the case and 14 cases were in a stable condition.

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by: cottontop @ Sun Jul 19, 2009 at 08:17:00 AM CDT

Egypt: 28-year-old country's first swine flu death

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(AP) - CAIRO - The Egyptian health ministry reports that a 28-year-old woman returning from a pilgrimage to Islam's holy places in Mecca, Saudi Arabia has become Egypt's first swine flu death.

A ministry spokesman, Abdel Rahman Shahin, says Samah el-Seyyed Salim died Sunday, three days after returning from Saudi Arabia. She had also been suffering from some heart and blood problems which might have complicated her condition.

Last week, Lebanon's Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah decreed that Muslims who have serious concerns about contracting swine flu while performing pilgrimage may stay away this year.

The number of cases of swine flu cases in the Arab countries has been growing, with Saudi Arabia recording the highest number of cases.

To calm the wife buy cases of chocolate, to calm the husband buy cases of booze, and to calm the children...... heck the booze and chocolate should work.

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by: Oremus @ Sun Jul 19, 2009 at 15:02:56 PM CDT

Egypt: 3 Suspected Bird Flu

3 cases of detention on suspicion of having bird flu Bhmyat Tanta
Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 17:00

Detained hospital admitted Tanta 3 new cases of suspicion of disease after an outbreak of avian flu symptoms, high temperature, and was confined to the places allocated to it and take a blood sample and swab hours and sent to the central laboratories of the Ministry of Health to make sure they fall ill or not.

Both were detained Mr. Abdullah (65 years) from the village and denied Mamdooh Essam Abdel-Alim (10 years) of the Center Dhtorp Zvty, Ibrahim Mohamed Ali (12 years) from the place. Altaymflo been given the drug until the result of the receipt of samples of their own, said Dr. Sharif Hammouda Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health meeting Sunday attended.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 18:57:10 PM CDT

5 Suspected of Bird Flu in Minya

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 14:32

El Hassan Abdel-Ghaffar

Minya detained hospital admitted 5 new cases of suspected bird flu patients detained Aweys Ahmed Ibrahim (3 years) the status of the village Alawaisp Samalut and Mr. Mohamed (12 years) and the Center for the Pacific on the Samalut Shehata (18 years) the status of the Upper Egyptian Harihan village Abdul Hadi Ismail Ibashaq Center Mtay and her sister Rose (6 years) and for the cluster of suspected bird flu after feeling shortness of breath and a rise in temperature.

Samples were taken and sent to central laboratories to ensure that the result of the analysis.

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by: cottontop @ Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 19:01:41 PM CDT

Pilgrims warned amid flu fears

2009-07-21 11:22

Cairo - Egypt has become the latest country to warn vulnerable Muslims not to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca, after a woman returning from Saudi Arabia became the first Egyptian to die from H1N1 flu.

The health ministry "has warned the elderly, pregnant women, children and those suffering from chronic illness not to perform the hajj or omra pilgrimages", the official Mena news agency reported.

As well as the annual hajj, which all Muslims are required to make once in a lifetime if they have the means, the faithful can also make a lesser pilgrimage to the holy places, known as omra, at any time of the year.
Upwards of two million people are expected in Saudi Arabia over the next five months on pilgrimages to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

The ministry "has asked them to delay taking part so that they are not exposed to the risks... of swine flu", Mena quoted health ministry official Amr Qandil as saying.
The warning came ahead of a meeting of Arab health ministers in Cairo on Wednesday to co-ordinate arrangements and precautions to be taken during the pilgrimage season.

Egypt on Sunday reported its first death linked to H1N1 flu after a 25-year-old woman returning from a Saudi pilgrimage died in hospital.

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by: cottontop @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 07:57:22 AM CDT

H5N1 outbreaks in birds - SAIDR report through July 16

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Dakahlia governorate

• Talkha district, Kotama village, chickens and ducks at a household, July 11

Fayoum governorate

• Sinouris district, Senhour el Qeblia village, 10 ducks and geese at a household, July 15

Qalubia governorate

• Kafr Shoukr district, Isunit village, 8,000 vaccinated broiler hybrid chickens at a farm, July 8

Sohag governorate

• Tema district, Tema city, 15 vaccinated chickens at a household, July 8

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by: AlohaOR @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 22:54:30 PM CDT

Egypt issues warning on Makkah

EGYPT ISSUES WARNING ON MAKKAH; 8 Kuwaitis back with swine flu

KUWAIT CITY, July 21,  (Agencies): Eight Kuwaitis have tested postive for swine flu on their return from an Omra pilgrimage to Makkah and have been admitted to hospital, the Kuwaiti health ministry announced on Tuesday. The Kuwaitis, including six women, "underwent laboratory tests, which confirmed their infection by the A(H1N1) virus," ministry spokesman Yussef al-Nisf.

"They are receiving the necessary treatment at the hospital and they are in stable condition," he said. The new cases take the number of people in Kuwait confirmed to have contracted swine flu to 44, most of whom have now recovered, the spokesman said. Al-Nisf, quoting the Saudi Health Ministry, said that authorities there have called on the elderly, pregnant women, people with chronic diseases and children to postpone performing pilgrimage for this year. It also urged pilgrims to get vaccinated against seasonal flu two weeks prior to their departure as a precautionary measure. The spokesman said the health ministry is following the situation and is dealing with the patients in line with guidelines of the World Health Organization

Egypt has become the latest country to warn vulnerable Muslims against pilgrimage to Makkah, after an Egyptian woman back from Saudi Arabia became the first swine flu death in the Middle East and Africa.

Egypt's health ministry "has warned the elderly, pregnant women, children and those suffering from chronic illness not to perform the Hajj or Omra pilgrimages," the official MENA news agency reported late Monday.

As well as the annual hajj, which all Muslims are required to make once in a lifetime if they have the means, the faithful can also make a lesser pilgrimage to the holy places, known as omra, at any time of the year.
Upwards of two million people are expected in Saudi Arabia over the next five months on pilgrimages to the Muslim holy cities of Makkah and Mdina in the west of the kingdom.

The ministry "has asked them to delay taking part so that they are not exposed to the risks... of swine flu," MENA quoted health ministry official Amr Qandil as saying.
The warning came ahead of a meeting of Arab health ministers in Cairo on Wednesday to coordinate arrangements and precautions to be taken during the pilgrimage season.
Egypt on Sunday reported its first death linked to swine flu after a 25-year-old woman returning from a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia died in hospital.

Egypt's top cleric or mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, has said he would be guided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other medical authorities on whether to issue a fatwa or decree barring all Egyptians from making the pilgrimage.
Egyptian health officials have said all returning pilgrims will be quarantined.

In Iran, a health ministry official on Tuesday repeated calls for elderly Iranians and children to avoid travelling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage as the number of confirmed swine flu cases in the Islamic republic rose to 16.

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 09:39:32 AM CDT

Can we get a new Egypt diary please? n/t

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by: cottontop @ Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 10:01:18 AM CDT

Coming up (n/t)

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by: AlohaOR @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 00:58:15 AM CDT

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