Saturday, April 25, 2009

Bird flu kills Egyptian .. the vaccine used in Egypt is not effective .. and great concern that the virus will mutate

April 25, 2009 - 12:24

Board of Governors held an emergency meeting, this week, led by Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Prime Minister, to discuss the dangerous developments of the avian flu and the spread of the deadly virus, in most provinces, to record the highest rates of human infection in the world during the first four months of 2009.

The sources said that the meeting is set tentatively next Wednesday, and will review the implementation of the decisions of the Higher Committee to combat avian influenza, particularly the closure of farms and the elimination of the various nest of home and the transfer of pig farms to the desert Monday.

At the same time, the fierce attack the virus, since detained hospitals fevers and Mahala, Tanta and Kafr Al-Zayat 8 citizens suspected of having avian flu, including 3 children and 4 women.

The Citizenship and Abdel-Jawad Wafa Hospital admitted to a hospital in Tanta was Abbasiyah, after being found infected with the virus, thus becoming the No. 68. For its part, called «the World Organization for Animal Health», the Egyptian authorities to vaccinate birds 3 times a year, and stressed in an official report on the need to provide the necessary vaccines and serums.

Sources with the Ministry of Agriculture revealed that the vaccine used by Egypt ineffective against the Egyptian version of the virus, following the failure of research institutes in Egypt, an Egyptian production of a vaccine, because of the weakness of the financing provided by the government.

"Dr. Hamid Samaha, Chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, said that about 4500 poultry farms in Egypt, operating without a license, out of 8 thusand farms.

The Ministry of Environment official report warns that the slowdown in the transport of pigs from the residential block could lead to the acceleration of the virus mutating to become a copy of the transition from human to human, as the pig headed act mediator of the virus.

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