Tamiflu Blanket Applied in Gharbiya Egypt
Recombinomics Commentary
December 24, 2007
It was also bad and bury dead birds in accordance with the procedures established in the collective Cemetery and coverage liming neighborhood.
Also signing Health Administration inspected the family farm Abdulatif Hamza and composed of 6 persons and sampling of them to ensure that no transmission of the disease and sent them to laboratories of the Ministry of Health, has also decided to maintain the provision of real estate Altamflo [Tamiflu] all hospitals diets and processing places of confinement following the appearance of the first positive case among birds in the maintaining this winter.
The above translation indicates a Tamiflu blanket is being applied in the Gharbiya governorate in the Nile Delta. H5N1 was confirmed there for the first time this season. Last December the Gharbiya cluster was reported. It is the largest cluster reported to date in Egypt, and the sequence from the fatal infections had two receptor binding domain changes, V223I and M230I, and was Tamiflu resistant, N294S.
Migratory birds fly into the region at this time of the year. Two years ago a healthy teal was H5N1 positive and it was also found in Damietta, another goveronate in the Nile Delta.
As noted above, the farm contacts are being tested fro H5N1 and will likely be placed on prophylactic does of Tamiflu if they are negative. Similarly, Tamiflu is being stockpile at hospitals and confinement locations in the area.
Earlier, Egypt issued a H5N1 alert when H5N1 was found in Sharqia, another Nile Delta governorate, in spite of an aggressive vaccination program.
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