Category Archives: Near East/Europe

Egypt: Reports second H5N1 avian influenza death in 2013

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Egypt has reported its third H5N1 avian flu case in 2013, in a 26-year-old man who died 16 April 2013. The country’s Min­istry of Health said on 17 April 2013 that the man, from Dakahlia gov­er­norate north of Cairo, died at a hos­pi­tal in Dakahlia. It was reported that the man died 16 April 2013. A 36-year-old woman from Beheira gov­er­norate died from the dis­ease on 26 Jan­u­ary 2013, and a 40-year-old woman from Menofia gov­er­norate was reported ill from H5N1 on 21 March 2013, accord­ing to pre­vi­ous reports. Since 2006 Egypt has con­firmed 173 H5N1 cases, 63 of which have been fatal.

(CIDRAP 4/17/2013)

 

Germany: Low-pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strikes two turkey farms

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Ani­mal health offi­cials in Ger­many reported on 21 April 2013 low-pathogenic H5N1 avian flu out­breaks at two turkey farms in Lower Sax­ony state, located in the north­west­ern part of the coun­try, accord­ing to the World Orga­ni­za­tion for Ani­mal Health (OIE). The two farms, which raised fat­ten­ing turkeys, had 25,050 sus­cep­ti­ble birds, of which 20 showed signs of dis­ease. The remain­ing birds were culled to con­trol the spread of the virus. So far, inves­ti­ga­tions haven’t deter­mined the source of the out­break. The dis­ease was last detected in Ger­many in August 2011, accord­ing to the OIE.

(CIDRAP 4/22/2013)

Egypt: H5N1 avian influenza sickens woman

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A 40-year-old Egypt­ian woman from Menofia gov­er­norate who became ill after con­tact with sick poul­try tested pos­i­tive for H5N1 avian influenza, accord­ing to the United Nations Food and Agri­cul­ture Orga­ni­za­tion (FAO) on 21 March 2013. She got sick on 3 March 2013 a few days after close con­tact with sick and dead back­yard ducks and chick­ens. If the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) con­firms the case, the woman’s ill­ness will be counted as Egypt’s 171st case, of which 61 have been fatal. The tests were con­ducted at Egypt’s Cen­tral Pub­lic Health Lab­o­ra­to­ries. News of her ill­ness appeared in the FAO’s monthly Emer­gency Cen­ter for Trans­bound­ary Ani­mal Dis­eases (ECTAD) highly path­o­genic avian flu sit­u­a­tion update. Egypt has had only one other H5N1 case in 2013, a fatal one.

(CIDRAP 3/25/2013)