[I'm not sure where they are getting their statistics. I have absolutely no cases in Vietnam for 2011. Now I do have 7 cases for Vietnam in 2010]
Fri, 06/01/2012
Dr. Amr Kandil, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Preventive Medicine, that in 2011 saw 40 casualties from bird flu, died, including 16 cases and noted that among the 40 cases in the world in 2011, Egypt received the lion's share of these cases to 23 cases «died of which 10 cases », followed by Indonesia with 8 cases of« died, including 7 cases », then Vietnam, with 7 cases of« died and two of them », then China, which took place in two cases died, including one, pointing out that about 50% of the deaths of bird flu this year was in Egypt, according to WHO statistics.
The World Health Organization has warned of the threat of avian influenza on Egypt, said Dr. Mustafa Orhan, former director of the Center for Influenza of the World Health Organization, there are fears of mutating virus is the deadly bird flu (H5 N1), to be able to move from human to human, as it is now spreading from birds to humans only, and added: «You 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 backyard», calling for the imposition of strict controls on poultry farms, and the prevention of backyard poultry.
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