Bird Flu :: Avian influenza – situation in Egypt – update
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced two new human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced two new human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
Anastasia and Tatiana are 3-year-old conjoined twins that a multidisciplinary team of Rainbow surgical specialists will be evaluating and attempting to separate over the next several months.
After a two-day meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, among officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) and 18 nations that have had animal and human outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, the government of Indonesia has agreed to resume sharing H5N1 virus samples for the first time since January.
On March 19 and March 20, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population announced new human cases of H5N1 avian influenza infection, both in Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt. The cases were confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory and U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 in Cairo.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced a new human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
A four-year-old boy from the Nile Delta town of Daqahliya tested positive for the H5N1 virus on 11 March. Sayyid al-Abbasi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said the boy had contracted the virus from domestic birds raised by his family. He added that his condition was stable.
The Egyptian government is working on new legislation that will restrict the movement of live poultry as the country reported its 24th case of avian flu.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced a new human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
Egyptian health officials confirmed on Tuesday that Egypt?s 12th fatal victim of bird flu died on 2 February. The victim was a 17-year-old girl from the rural Fayyoum region, south-west of the capital, Cairo. She is believed to have been infected after coming into contact with sick and dead birds at her home.
Margaret Chan, the new head of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned against relaxing the world’s defenses against a potential influenza pandemic, as two more human deaths from H5N1 avian flu were confirmed, one in Egypt and one in Indonesia.