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Topic: Egypt human H5N1 now 17 Posted: January 20 2015 at 1:38pm |
Egyptian health authorities have confirmed four additional human cases of H5N1 avian influenza for 2015, bring the total to 17. H5N1 avian influenza Image/Cynthia Goldsmith/ Jackie Katz The 14th case is a 27-year-old woman from Monofia. She is currently being treated for her illness,according to an Egyptian Ministry of Health press release (computer translated). The 15th case is a 43-year-old woman from Assiut. She has reported died from the infection. Case number 16 of 2015 is a three and a half year old girl from Cairo. She is also hospitalized and being treated. Lastly, the 17th case is a 35 year old woman from Sohag who is being treated. In 2015 to date, 17 human H5N1 avian influenza cases have been confirmed. Six have recovered from their illness, 8 are currently being treated and 3 have died. The health ministry calls on the public who deal with poultry and who get symptoms of influenza to go immediately to the hospital for treatment with Tamiflu. In addition, they advise the same people to exercise caution when dealing with birds. A moderator at ProMed Mail commented on the increase in human cases in Egypt saying: “It is very clear that the failure of control of H5N1 outbreak in the poultry industry sector has resulted in the currently seen upsurge in human cases.
"Lack of financial compensation for culling of infected farms for these small poultry farm owners has made them reluctant to declare the health status of their birds.”
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 6:15pm |
I believe this is the largest H5N1 outbreak in a single month for any given country, ever. There have been 18 cases for a country over a years period several years ago, but that's dating back to 2005. I think Indonesia held the record back in 2005 at around 55 cases for the entire year. 18 in a month?
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 6:51pm |
Sounds like they're doing a crappy job of controlling the virus in poultry and it's spilling over into the human population. This is exactly what we don't want to see.
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 1:18pm |
Bird Flu Cases SurgingA total of 31 people have been infected this month with the H5N1 strain of the bird flu, Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced Tuesday. So far, 10 have died from the virus. The rate of infection appears to be higher than it was in 2014, when 27 infections and 11 fatalities were reported. Meanwhile, in Nigeria, 11 out of the country’s 36 states have reported cases of the bird flu. Nigerian Agricultural and Rural Development Minister Akinwumi Adesina said Thursday, “At the time of my briefing the nation on Jan. 21, 2015, seven states had reported cases of the bird flu. As of yesterday, a total of 11 states have reported positive cases.” It’s hardly Ebola, but H5N1 is the most highly pathogenic strain of bird flu and has reached throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It is one strain out of dozens of bird flu types, five of which have shown to be a threat to humans: H5N1, H7N3, H7N7, H7N9 and H9N2. Nigeria recorded in 2007 the first human death from the H5N1 strain, which lives in poultry and is transmittable to humans. It predominately strikes rural areas where standards for handling meat and monitoring of livestock are lower. The H5N8 strain was detected in a California turkey farm on Jan. 26, just weeks after China banned U.S. poultry in response to an outbreak of two separate virus strains of bird flu in Whatcom County, Washington, the USDA said. No fatalities or human infections have been reported in the U.S. or Canada in 2015.
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 1:40pm |
It looks like it's coming?
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 1:49pm |
i think its HERE!!!!! or there seems to be everywhere at once,
reminds me of how they planned to release the colochi virus over here to kill the rabbits
get the biggest kill rate if you release it all over
12 MONKEYS.........................
http://youtu.be/C7sNJdLQVBE
great movie a must for flu followers.......
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