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[Influenza Virus Mashup] [Avian Flu Diary] Watching Egypt Again | Influenza Virus Mashup: of the village share of Parma Center Tanta on suspicion of being infected with bird flu Blood samples were taken from him and the melancholy hours, and sent to the central laboratories of the Ministry of Health with the illness or not and given the drug Tamiflu and the isolation of places allocated to it .

[ThePoultrySite - Industry News] Egypt to Remain Dependent on Imports: Under the new law, only licensed slaughterhouses with a resident veterinarian are allowed to handle live poultry. The new ban is just the latest initiative by Egypt's government aimed at enhancing efficiency and improving standards within the poultry sector.

[Bikya Masr] New bird flu case confirmed in Egypt - Bikya Masr: In May this year, an international health expert said that Egypt failed in eliminating the danger of Avian influenza. Farid Hosni, the head of the project “Stop bird flu stop AI” of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), said in a speech at a conference organized by the project in collaboration with the General Authority for Veterinary Services, that the bird flu virus “is the more serious and deadly than swine flu, especially in Egypt, where death rates reached 59 percent.”

[The Bird Flu Report] WHO's latest H5N1 tally: And the total over five and a half years, 168 cases with 139 deaths, gives Indonesia a consistently high CFR of 82.7 percent. The worldwide CFR is 59.4 percent””appalling in itself, but still dramatically less than Indonesia's.

[Survival Made Easy...] biological preparedness wiki | Survival Made Easy...: As a result, and despite annual vaccinations, the U.S. faces a burden of influenza that results in approximately 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations each year. In addition to this human toll, influenza is annually responsible for a total cost of over $10 billion in the U.S. A pandemic, or worldwide outbreak of a new influenza virus, could dwarf this impact by overwhelming our health and medical capabilities, potentially resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of hospitalizations, and hundreds of billions of dollars in direct and indirect costs.

[Flu Wiki Forum - Recent Comments] Egypt: case of Bird flu: Health Ministry on Wednesday announced the appearance of another case of the H5N1 virus, bringing the total number of documented cases in Egypt to 122 since the virus--also known as avian or bird flu--first emerged in 2006.

[Chen Qi-The World of Micro-Organism] Egypt reports 36th death of bird flu: According to a statement issued by the ministry, the woman, who comes from Al-Qalubia governorate, north of Cairo, was admitted to hospital earlier this week and treated with the drug Tamiflu but remained in critical condition until she died Thursday, the 9th death of this year.

[Influenza Virus Mashup] [Crof's H5N1] Thailand: Experts warn deadly bird flu could return ...: Ms Pilaipan said seagulls could contribute to the risk of H5N1 virus re-emerging in Thailand as flocks of the birds usually migrate from Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces in China, where bird flu outbreaks were still being reported. Samut Prakan’s Bang Pu district contains the country’s largest habitat for migratory gulls.

[rndsync's Blog] Bird flu coming back?: Human to human transmission of H5N1 has not been possible so far. However, these viruses mutate and they jump species say birds to pigs and then to humans all the while mingling and exchanging genes with other flu viruses like H1N1.

[Flu News Blog] EGYPT: Bird flu infection rates down 40 percent since start of ...: Specialists raise awareness of bird flu in high-risk areas by disseminating materials on a village-to-village basis CAIRO, 5 February 2008 (IRIN) - Egypt's Supreme Committee to Combat Bird Flu - a government body - said on 2 February .

[Free Range Humans] Bird Flu Distributed by Dept of Homeland Security | Free Range Humans: A deadly stock of pig flu never seen before has exploded in Mexico, that according to the WHO would have caused the death to up to 60 people and fear is growing of a possible propagation in North America. “the WHO will reunite soon, in the future very near, a committee of emergency under the International Regulations of Health, which will consider if this event constitutes an event of public health of international preoccupation”, the spokesman of the WHO said to Reuters in Geneva Gregory Hartl.

[mixertrucks.blogr.com - Blog (RSS 2.0)] The further spread of bird flu worldwide:     Gabaly said that in Egypt 17, announced its territory since the outbreak of bird flu, the government departments concerned are to take all feasible measures to control the spread of the epidemic. These measures include the prohibition in place without government permits slaughter birds, closing the capital Cairo and the other seven cities, the National Zoo, further strengthen the quarantine of poultry, and announced the cancellation of the annual migratory game bird seasons to reduce the human the possibility of contact between.

[Michael Hyatt's Blog] Keeping the Swine Flu in Perspective: The problem with swine flu and the reason that the very intelligent and informed people at CDC and WHO, and yes, the media, are so hyped up about this is because of its potential to change very much for the worse. While seasonal flu kills 36,000 persons on average per year (in the US), we have a very good vaccination program and there is even some residual immunity in the population to the seasonal flu.

[Influenza Virus Mashup] [Crof's H5N1] Egypt: A new case of human H5N1 | Influenza Virus Mashup: According to a ministry statement, her symptoms include high fever and breathing difficulties. She contracted the illness after coming into contact with poultry suspected of having been infected with the virus, the statement noted, adding that she remained in critical condition despite having been treated with the anti-viral drug Tamiflu on arrival to the hospital. 

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