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I am not sure if someone posted already this news but I think its very important to know.
I hope the Egyptian Government will inform it's people if they have findings like that.
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Tigerlily!they already found bird flu in Hungary also,the same..swans.Its getting worse.My mother called me and was worried that they might forbid travelling soon..I hope not!
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Egypt tests chickens after mysterious deaths Thursday February 16, 06:29 PM
CAIRO (AFP) - Officials in Egypt's southern governorate of Qena began testing chickens for avian flu after the mysterious deaths of some 130 of them in one village, an AFP correspondent reported.
The death of the birds at a number of homes in Ezzab al-Masri prompted residents to alert officials, fearing the outbreak of a disease, the correspondent said.
Veterinary doctors later took samples from the dead poultry for testing.
Egypt says it has not detected any cases of bird flu in the country since officials tightened controls at ports of entry and set up observation posts along its borders and waters to collect samples on migratory birds.
The authorities have also called off the bird-hunting season in response to the global bird flu scare and banned imports of live birds and poultry products.
Qena is the governorate in which the popular tourist areas of Luxor and Thebes are located
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Second bird flu case found in Iraq, according to results from U.N.-certified lab in Egypt Front page / World 02/16/2006 23:22 Source:
The dead uncle of an Iraqi girl who died last month after contracting the deadly bird flu virus also had the disease, said U.S. and U.N. officials Thursday, citing results of samples tested at a U.N.-certified laboratory in Egypt.
The man died Jan. 27 in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region and lived in the same house as his 15-year-old niece, who was confirmed as the country's first bird flu-related death. They died 10 days apart.
"We learned today that the uncle's samples came back positive from Cairo for avian influenza H5N1," said a U.S. official, who declined to be identified further because he was not authorized to release the information to the media.
The U.S. official said the tests did not indicate if the uncle had caught the virus from his niece. To date there have been no confirmed cases that H5N1 has mutated into a virus capable of being passed directly between humans. Experts fear such a development could lead to a global pandemic.
An official from the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization office confirmed that the sample from the uncle had tested positive for H5N1 when analyzed by the U.S. Navy Medical Research Unit laboratory in the Egyptian capital.
The Navy lab is certified by the United Nations' World Health Organization to conduct such tests.
But one further test must be carried out by a London laboratory certified by the United Nations' World Health Organization before the world body confirms that the uncle did in fact have bird flu H5N1.
Talib Ali Elam, FAO's Cairo-based regional officer for animal health, said the girl's family and uncle kept poultry in the district of Serkapkan in Sulaimaniyah, a Kurdish province in northeastern Iraq.
After their deaths, the family "culled all chicken, geese, turkey, ducks in Serkapkan and 36 villages around," said Elam, who visited the area as part of a U.N.-led delegation.
Elam said the U.S. Navy laboratory is working through more than 100 human samples from Iraq and at least two dozen samples from birds and cats.
H5N1 has killed at least 91 people, mostly in Asia, since 2003, but catching the disease remains extremely difficult. Cases of birds being found with the disease have recently surfaced in Nigeria plus numerous European states, including Italy, Greece and Germany, reports AP.
(IsraelNN.com) The state-controlled Syrian el-Thawra newspaper used a 1998 report by the Sunday Times of London, which documented Israel’s development of biological warfare, hinting that the bird flu was the work of Israel, aimed at the Arab nations.
The Times report cited Israel’s scientists were working to identify genes that were characteristic to Arabs, and to then develop diseases that would target those genes. The paper adds the flu’s presence in the Far East is nothing more than an attempt to mislead the international community.
The paper also blames Israel for killing Yasser Arafat, stating it used the very same technology to target Arab genes to kills the late Palestinian Authority (PA) leader.
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i always thought jewish people liked chickens. [Chicken soup ???] personally i always blame the neocons -- for everything. [tsunamis, hurricanes, bad internet connections, you name it] Seriously though, scary ... but 91 deaths??? Not exactly malaria is it?
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