# 354
Were it not for tireless work of our intrepid newshounds on the Internet, who spend hours each day combing online newspapers written in Arabic, Bahasa, and the Chinese language, among others, we’d know far less about what is going on in the world of avian flu than we do.
A hat tip to Theresa42, over at Flutrackers, for finding this report from the alwafd.org news site.
9 injured in suspected cases of bird flu disease
Jan 25, 2007
A state of confusion yesterday within the governorates due to the illness of avian flu. The Directorate of Health enough detained six suspected cases of avian influenza illness. Also seized were two El Al-Adwah Central Hospital. Yesterday was the discovery of a new hotbed of the disease, in the quarter the neighborhood where tests proved killing 12 chickens homes. The symptoms of the disease appeared on the child Mostafa Kamal Shahin from the village of Nasiriyah in Fayyoum, and take preventive actions to prevent the disease.
The crisis of avian flu and the emergence of a number of cases of suspected virus disease in the province of Fayoum serious surprise. Reception Center found that cases in the intensive care unit General Hospital and the Hospital Viral and Sadr does not receive any cases of the suspects, although they are the natural place to accommodate such cases.
As shown, there is a severe shortage in the number and efficiency of doctors trained in intensive care breathing devices and industrial gas blood with predictably disastrous situation of the increasing number of cases of suspects are perceived to have avian flu.
According to sources medical >delegation< the seriousness of a disease suspected of being infected with the ordinary patients in the intensive care unit General Hospital.
On the other hand, suspected the disease symptoms appeared on the child Mostafa Kamal Shahin from the village of Nasiriyah men Muawwad Fayyoum and the status of Veterinary Medicine to move to a single and took preventive measures to prevent the spread of the disease.
Since the first of the year, scarcely a day goes by when we don’t hear of additional suspected cases of avian flu in Egypt. Rarely do we hear any follow up to these cases.
It is impossible to tell how many, if any, of these cases are truly caused by the H5N1 virus. Many, no doubt, are suffering from other ailments, such as seasonal flu.
What is obvious, however, is the seriousness with which the Egyptian authorities are taking this situation.
While tracking news accounts from the local press is fraught with dangers, and not an ideal source of information; in many instances, it is the only source we have.
