Home Page 1 Mali: Mali seeks external help to fight bird flu Livestock and fisheries minister Oumar Ibrahim Touré has appealed to development partners to back Mali`s plan that is under preparation to fight bird flu. He said the objective of the proposed plan was to prevent the entry of bird flu into the country and enhance its rapid intervention capacity ... Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-02-16) Egypt: Egypt reports bird flu in 11 governorates Bird flu cases have been reported in 11 governorates in Egypt since its first case turned up last Friday, the Egyptian Gazette reported on Tuesday. Egypt`s Heath Minister Hatem el-Gabali was quoted as saying that the 11 affected governorates were in the Nile Delta and Upper Egypt as poultry ... Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-02-21) Egypt: Sixth Egyptian dies of bird flu: WHO A 75-year-old woman died of bird flu in Egypt today, the sixth death caused by the disease, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said. John Jabbour said the woman was from Minya in southern Egypt. She had been in contact with infected poultry, he said, quoting information provided by ... Read Story at SABCNews (2006-05-19) Ivory Coast: Animal health body reports bird flu in Ivory Coast The first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been reported in Ivory Coast, where 17 infected birds were found in the Abidjan area, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said today. Bird flu outbreaks have been reported in five other African countries, including Egypt where ... Read Story at SABCNews (2006-04-26) Egypt: Egyptian woman tests positive for bird flu: WHO A 27-year-old Egyptian woman has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the 19th human case in the most populous Arab country, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said. The virus has killed 10 people in Egypt, which has the largest cluster of human bird flu cases outside ... Read Story at SABCNews (2007-01-17) Egypt: Egypt orders mass cull of pigs Egypt, hit hard by bird flu, has ordered the slaughter of every pig herd in the country as a precaution against swine flu, a step the United Nations said was a mistake. The H1N1 swine flu virus is spread by people and is not present in Egyptian animals but ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2009-04-30) Egypt: 19th case of bird flu detected Officials in Egypt’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that a new case of the H5N1 ‘bird-flu’ virus has been detected in the Upper Egypt town of Beni Suef, bringing the total number of infections in the country since March 2006 to 19. A ... Read Story at IRINNews (2007-01-18) Egypt: Fourth Egyptian woman dies of bird flu Egypt said on Thursday a fourth woman had died after being infected with the bird flu virus, the state MENA news agency said. The latest victim was an 18-year-old woman from a province north of Cairo, who was admitted to hospital on Monday. Egypt has so far reported 12 ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2006-04-14) Egypt: Fourth Egyptian woman dies of bird flu Egypt said on Thursday a fourth woman had died after being infected with the bird flu virus, the state MENA news agency said. The latest victim was an 18-year-old woman from a province north of Cairo, who was admitted to hospital on Monday. Egypt has so far reported 12 ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2006-04-14) Egypt: Egypt and India race to control bird flu outbreaks By Wagdy Sawahel, Padma Tata and Catherine Brahic Egypt and India are the latest developing nations to detect outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed 93 people since 2003. Egypt has declared a state of emergency, having detected outbreaks in eight provinces, including the capital Cairo, in ... Read Story at SABCNews (2006-02-22) News Results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60