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    Posted: April 22 2009 at 8:31am
Is this an epidemic... Report also surfacing this AM that eight more are in hospital with bird flu symptoms.
Egyptian child dies of bird flu, another contracts
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08:45, April 22, 2009

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The Egyptian Health Ministry said Tuesday that a six-year-old boy died after he was infected with bird flu virus, bringing the human cases of the fatal avian influenza to 67 and the number of deaths to 24 in the populous country.

The boy, Ali Mahmoud Ali, who comes from northern Egyptian governorate of Qalyubiya, some 40 km north of Cairo, was admitted to hospital on March 28, and died on Tuesday, Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine confirmed.

Meanwhile, another official from the Health Ministry said that another four-year-old boy, Ahmed Ramadan Kamal Adean, from Sohag in south of Cairo, contracted the virus.

The boy showed symptoms of infection on Saturday after contacting with infected birds, and then he was admitted to hospital on the same day, given the antiviral vaccine Tamiflu and is in a stable condition, he added.

Egypt is the most affected country by the deadly avian influenza outside Asia. It reported its first H5N1 virus in dead poultry in February 2006 and the first human case in March of the same year.

Source:Xinhua
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hi.... it isn't good.  
 
 
They have found an Indo strain of flu in Egypt. 
 
 
Antigenically close to A/Indonesia/5/2005 (H5N1) 
 
 
Perhaps the Hajj in Novenber is more likely to brew trouble than  pigs.
 
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Egypt has a Who partnership program in place similar to the one they had in Turkey when
 
they were warding off pandemic in 2007-2008.
 
This time it may prove more difficult with the iIndonesian Flu strains so far flung.
 
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EGYPT: Contingency planning for an avian flu pandemic
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Specialists raise awareness of bird flu in high-risk areas by disseminating materials on a village-to-village basis
 
 
CAIRO, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) -
 
Egypt, the country hit hardest by avian flu in the Middle East, is working on preventative measures to
 stop a potential human influenza pandemic.
 
 
The government, the UN World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have put together a national contingency plan
to boost rapid containment procedures, and build capacity to cope with a pandemic.
 
 
 
A potential human influenza pandemic could come about if the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates to allow
 human to human transmission.
 
 
Training exercises - involving the simulated conditions of a pandemic - are being organised in all 26 governorates.
So far training teams have been formed and assigned to the governorates of al-Beheria, Menia, Gharbiya, Munufiya, and Sharqiya.
 
 
 
Muhammad Fawzi, director of a committee at the Centre for Future Studies - a government research i
nstitution with representatives from the ministries of defence, military production, health and population,
 interior affairs, environment, and foreign affairs - worked with governors to create the plan, based
on WHO and Egyptian government recommendations.
 
 
 
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