Saturday, December 25, 2010

Pig cull was the right decision

The former president of influenza of the global health: not for the execution of pig farms and the transfer to Egypt faced a terrible disaster

Saturday, December 25, 2010 13:32 GMT

Mustafa Orhan: cull was the right decision

ا..decision to move the pigs out of the residential area of Greater Cairo and other provinces right decision 100% .. And side Egypt the possibility of exposure to the risk of mutation of the virus (1 H, 1) the virus that causes swine flu virus (H5, 1) avian influenza virus is endemic in Egypt, with a virus normal seasonal influenza, to show the deadly virus of all these breeds, then the consequences will be severe consequences for Egypt and the world ». According to assertions former director of the Center of the Influenza World Health Organization in Cairo d. Mustafa Orhan.


He said Orhan's «Sunrise» that «the presence of pigs in the boxes housing along with live birds, or even dead and infected bird flu near the people at risk of viruses normal seasonal influenza, it was a serious danger to public health of the Egyptians .. Because the body of the pig is considered a container for the mutation of influenza viruses .. Which is extremely dangerous in terms of a new mutation in the influenza viruses, and thus the decision to move pigs out of residential areas is very correct ».

He stressed international expert in the influenza strains that «the re-emergence of swine influenza in Egypt and the world since the start of winter is normal, and should not be afraid of, and the announcement of the deaths affected the disease is not new .. But what is new is that we have since the declaration of a pandemic disease in June and we started in the monitoring of injuries and deaths from the disease ».

And d. Orkhan to increase the incidence of swine flu in January and February before returning to disappear again with the relatively gradual increase in temperatures ».

He said that «by the juxtaposition of deaths or injuries swine flu, which is announced since the beginning of winter current, we find that the majority located in the provinces, and in rural areas, for the lack of attention to personal hygiene is relatively, and the absence of a culture of washing hands, and this in turn helps to speed the spread of infection» .

The Ministry of Health announced yesterday for the registration of the first infection (115), bird flu in Egypt, which Egypt has reinforced at the top of the world where those injuries and deaths from the disease in 2010, according to WHO statistics.

Of the 115 is the total of confirmed cases of bird flu in Egypt since the emergence of the disease in 2006 so far died 37 cases, which was commented upon by Orhan saying «There are fears of a mutated bird flu virus deadly to be able to move from human to human, as it is now spreading from birds to humans only, and should know that this virus has become endemic in Egypt since he entered it in 2006, as a result of the spread of poultry farms and indiscriminate education at home

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