Sunday, March 11, 2012

Egypt: "Veterinary Luxor": 5 new deaths between cattle and 34 injured foot and mouth disease

Confirmed Dr. Hanaa Abdel-Majid Director of Veterinary Medicine that the preservation seen 5 cases of new deaths among cattle on Sunday and 34 cases of foot and mouth disease.

Hana said today that the province has seen the case of mortality of zinnia with a cow in the city witnessed the death of the other two cases Tod and the city of Esna deaths of two cases.

This brings the number of deaths to 12 cases, including the heads of cows and young Khrovan and one cow, while the number of cases to 145 cases were treated by all assurances of the Director of Veterinary Medicine.

The Hana to foot and mouth disease, contagious among cattle, sheep and pigs, especially the young of these animals, characterized by the appearance Tafhat swollen and vesicles in the mouth of the animal and on the skin, udder and female sick animals.

She added that the disease is transmitted from animal to another, and the infection of livestock is often of inhalation of the virus through the air, and going further, pointing out that it is very rare human infection with the virus, and this happens through contact with the virus of the skin infected wounds when dealing with infected cattle , and the symptoms in humans is simple; so the OIE World (OIE) is not a disease of importance to public health for humans, where I discovered human cases (40 case only) from 1921 until 1969, and did not record any complications.

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