Ali Shawki, Teresa Kamal, Gamal Nawfal, Omar Sheikh, Mahmoud Omar, Alaa Abdallah and Mohamed Fayed Fever hospitals in five Egyptian governorates have detained eight suspected cases of bird flu over the past two days.
Beni Suef Governor Ezzat Abdallah said the local fever hospital admitted three children of ten months, four and seven years of age. Samples were taken to be analyzed. In Fayoum, Dr. Hussein Sophie Abou Taleb, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health in the governorate, said a one-and-a-half-year-old child and a 21 year-old conscript in the Central Security Forces in Fayoum were hospitalized. In Menya, 28 year-old Ibrahim Sabir Abdel Azim was hospitalized on Friday evening and is due to stay in hospital at least until the results of his analyses are ready. In Port Said, local Health Director Emad Eddin Hassan ordered to isolate 53-year-old el-Sayyeda Mohamed Ali. She said she bought live poultry at the market, slaughtered it on the following day and then felt fever, pain in her bones and sore throat.
In Matrouh, the Health Directorate transferred 47-year-old Hashim Alouani Abdel Nabi to Alexandria fever hospital for treatment. In Gharbia, the Directorates of Veterinary Medicine and Health, as well as Qutur City Council, culled yesterday 1,700 birds after some of them developed the symptoms of the disease. 70 shops selling live birds were shut down and 81 nests were removed which were used for domestic breeding.
