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Responding to numerous Arabic media stories over the weekend suggesting that several patients had been diagnosed with the H5N1 virus (see Watching Egypt Again . . .), Egypt’s Minister of Health Dr. Maha Rabat denied the existence of any H5N1 (or coronavirus) cases in the country during a meeting today of the Supreme Committee on Influenza.
According to Dr. Rabat, among 4 recent pneumonia deaths reported in the media, 3 were due to H1N1.
Hossam Zayed
Denied Dr. Maha Rabat, Minister of Health, and the death of citizens infected with bird flu, noting that it did not register any positive cases of virus A/H5N1 bird flu "since last April, where it was confirmed the injury number 4 cases in 2013, and is suspected in 284 other case , and the result was negative, and the last case of injury to his master at the age of 25 years from the province of Sohag, and died on May 5 last year.
This came during a meeting of the Supreme Committee of the flu, which was held on Monday, which included the entire leadership of the Ministry of Health to coordinate the procedures which must be followed in the governmental sector and university hospitals and the private sector to report cases infected with the flu, and review of surveillance systems for influenza, types and severity at the provincial level and application systems fight infection.
The minister pointed out that the Commission has decided the need for a number of immediate steps, including the vaccination of health team, where he was to provide 80 thousand doses vaccinated for seasonal flu groups most at risk of health workers, to take all preventive measures to head to activate a working group to study and monitor the situation in Egypt, and activate surveillance for influenza and pneumonia Mansoura Chest Hospital, sending samples taken from infected plants to Namro 3 to confirm the diagnosis, and the re-examination of the negative samples, and access to the DNA of the virus that causes the disease.
Also be sure of the availability of all the supplies and medicines for the disease, and monitor the implementation of infection control measures hospitals chest, and the preparation of a field study to determine the incidence of influenza and pneumonia.
