- http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=3D328606&SecID=3D65&IssueID=3D0
- http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3D15747
-
-
- By Amira Abdel-Salam
-
-
- Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesman of the Egyptian
Ministry
- of Health, stated that the team monitoring the avian
influenza
- A/(H5N1) epidemic has discovered 2 more cases of bird
flu [avian
- influenza A/(H5N1) virus infection]. The 1st is a 25-year-old
woman
- from Qena Governorate who died on 29 Dec 2010. The 2nd
is a
- 27-year-old man, a resident in Ismailia governorate,
who is under
- treatment at an Ismailia hospital and is in stable condition.
-
- This brings the number of cases to 118 and the number
of deaths to 39
- since the onset of the outbreak in 2006.
-
- --
- Communicated by:
- ProMED-mail promed@promedmail.org
-
- ******
- [2]
- Date: 1 Jan 2011
- Source: Egypt News [edited]
- http://www.egynews.net/wps/portal/news?params=111909
-
-
- Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, the official spokesman of the
Egyptian
- Ministry of Health, has announced the discovery of 2
new cases of bird
- flu [avian influenza A/(H5N1) virus infection]. The total
number of
- cases is now 118.
-
- Shaheen explained in a statement on Sat 1 Jan 2011 that
the 1st case
- was a 25-year-old woman from Qena governorate who had
died on 29 Dec
- 2010. The 2nd is a 27-year-old man from Ismailia governorate,
who is
- being treated in a hospital in Ismailia and remains in
stable condition.
-
- This brings the number of cases to 118 and the number
of deaths to 39
- since the onset of the disease in Egypt in 2006.
-
- --
- Communicated by:
- ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall
-
- [The number of human cases of avian A/(H5N1) influenza
virus infection
- confirmed by the Egyptian Ministry of Health is accelerating,
although
- so far only 115 cases have been confirmed by the World
Health
- Organisation. For convenience, and because of some discrepancies
in
- the identification of cases, the following list compiled
by
- FluTrackers
- (http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=384727#post384727)
-
- is reproduced for the convenience of interested
readers:
-
- Egypt Ministry of Health Confirmed Cases during 2010/2011
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- 2010
- ----
- # 91 - 20 years old, female, onset date - 6 Jan 2010
- Beni Suef
- governate Death
-
- # 92 - 1 year old, male, onset date - 7 Jan 2010 - Dakahalya
governorate
-
- # 93 - 3 years old, male, onset date - 19 Jan 2010 -
Assuit governorate
-
- # 94 - 45 years old, male, onset date - 12 Jan 2010 -
Shargea governorate
-
- # 95 - 40 years old, female, onset date - 31 Jan 2010
- Qalyubia Governorate
-
- # 96 - 29 years old, female, onset date - 27 Jan 2010
- Menoufiya
- Governorate Death
-
- # 97 - 37 years old, male, onset date - 6 Feb 2010 -
Helwan governate Death
-
- # 98 - 32 years old, male, onset date - 6 Feb 2010 -
Menofiya Governorate
-
- # 99 - 29 years old, female, onset date - 6 Feb 2010
- Menoufiya
- governorate Death
-
- #100 - 10 years old, male, onset date 10 Feb 2010 - Dakahlia
governorate
-
- #101 - 13 years old, male, onset date 10 Feb 2010 - Kafr
El- Sheikh
- governorate
-
- #102 - 30 years old, female, onset date 10 Feb 2010 -
Kafr El- Sheikh
- governorate
-
- #103 - 14 months, male, onset date 22 Feb 2010 - Qalyubia
governorate
-
- #104 - 52/53 years old, male, onset date 27 Feb 2010
- Qalyubia
- governorate Death
-
- #105 - 20 years old, female, onset date 5 Mar 2010 -
Qalyubia
- governorate Death
-
- #106 - 18 months, male, onset date 2 Mar 2010 - Kfr Elsheikh
governorate
-
- #107 - 4 years old, male, onset date 18 Mar 2010 - Beni
Suef governorate Death
-
- #108 - 30 years old, female, onset date?, hospitalized
24 Mar 2010 -
- Damietta governorate
-
- #109 - 18 years old, female, onset date?, hospitalized
31 Mar 2010 -
- Fayoum Governorate Death
-
- #110 - 20 years old, female, onset date unknown, hospitalized
in Cairo
- 21 Jul 2010 - Qalyubia governorate Death
-
- #111 - 2 year old, female, onset date unknown, hospitalized
4 Aug 2010
- - Cairo governorate
-
- #112 - 33 year old, female, onset date unknown, hospitalized
24 Aug
- 2010 - Qalyubia governorate Death
-
- #113 - 30 year old female, onset date 28 Nov 2010 - hospitalized
1 Dec
- 2010 - Gharbia governorate - Death
-
- #114 - 25 year old female, onset date unknown at this
time Behiera governorate
-
- #115 - 44 year old male, onset date unknown at this time
- Dakahlia
- governorate Death
-
- #116 - 56 year old female, announced 28 Dec 2010 - Sharqia
governorate
-
- #117 - 25 year old female, died on 29 Dec 2010 - Qena
governorate Death
-
- 2011
- ----
- #118 - 27 year old man, announced 1 Jan 2011 - Ismailia
governorate.
-
- A map of the governorates of Egypt can be accessed at:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Egypt
- The governorates of Qena and Ismailia, the locations
of the 2 most
- recent cases, are widely separated. - Mod.CP
-
-
-
- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also
my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai
sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health
-
- Benjamin Franklin said, "They that
- can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve
- neither liberty nor safety."
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