Saturday, May 2, 2009

Department of Epidemiology: an innocent pigs of influenza in Egypt

3 vets, a soldier and other suspects, some in a town where pigs are raised
Department of Epidemiology: an innocent pigs of influenza in Egypt

السبت، 2 مايو 2009 - 13:02
Saturday, May 2, 2009 - 13:02

Birds are still the first source of danger in Egypt


Dr. Saber Abdel Aziz, director general of the Directorate General of epidemics, there are 3 cases of suspicion of infection, doctors and veterinary bird flu occurred two days ago, one of the farms are compelling, but not confirmed after the injury.

Abdul Aziz said that an innocent pigs so far of any injuries or any suspected cases, because the swine flu did not enter Egypt.

He pointed out that the concern which controls the citizens, which is forcing them to go to the hospital to check, which is recorded as a suspected case.
The other hand, said Dr. Ibrahim Abanndary director of the Preventive Medicine Authority veterinary services to the final statistics of the number of pigs in Egypt revealed the existence of 156 thousand pigs in 8 governorates, namely Cairo, where the number of pigs Qalubia 63466 and 25668 and 28020, Giza


October 6, Helwan 17750 and 20694 and the lake, 457, Menya, Sohag, 151 and 75 in the Monastery of Lecy our father and the Archbishop surged.

Denied Abanndary have been raised about the disposal of the pigs are in the same places for animals, massacres, and said that there is a special ward of the pigs are not allowed to mix with the meat and other meat animals.

For his part, Dr. Abdul-Qader Abed Director of the Department of Health on Monday announced that the preservation of the state of emergency, and a series of intensive meetings, daily meetings with all leaders in the county health directors and public and private hospitals to follow up on any changes, in addition to the distribution of publications to guide the citizens.

Abid said that the hospitals to deal seriously with any case of avian flu, who tend to any citizen or pigs.

He pointed out that the hospitals were equipped to receive emergency cases.



For his part, Dr. Maher Mohamed, the head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Helwan had been taking samples from the pigs and the maintenance of the existing outcome was negative. Wink

In the governorate of Minya detained Mallawi hospital fevers, patience of Ibrahim Abd El-Naim (28 years) Sharafiyah Bamahrs village on suspicion of being infected with bird flu, samples were taken and sent to the laboratory in Cairo, and that is the case of a suspected fourth of its kind in three days, and the second is the status of Mallawi .

This is the fourth case 4 in three days and the second case the status of Mallawi, which has raised concern among the citizens, for fear that the suspects avian infected pigs, as pigs are at the center of the village of Mallawi village, Deir, Deir Abu Hns Albercp.

In Fayoum, hospital doctors suspected fever cases in the central security soldiers and a child, a baby with bird flu, had been detained in hospital and take samples for their analysis of the central labs, the Ministry of Health.

The citizen Hanafi Taha Ahmed (21 years) from the Central Security Forces Fayoum, Giza Governorate, and live, have reached a fever to a hospital suffering a sharp rise in temperature, showing symptoms of bird flu.
Also entered the hospital, children's diets Fayyoum Mr. Hassan Juma, aged one and a half from the village of compromise Psonors, and developed the same symptoms.

Doctors in the hospital suspected the two cases of bird flu, has been sampling them to be sent to labs central Ministry of Health, to make sure they got sick or not.

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