Egyptian Foot and mouth disease update

EGYPT - This is follow up report No.2 via OIE on the Foot and Mouth outbreak in Egypt.

15 February 2007

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Information received on 13/02/2007 from Mr Ahmed Tawfik Mohamed, GOVS, Ministry of Agriculture, Chairman of the General Oraganisation of Veterinary Services, LE CAIRE, Egypt

Summary

Report type	Follow-up report No. 2
Start date	22/01/2006
Date of confirmation of event	12/02/2006
Report date	13/02/2007
Date submitted to OIE	14/02/2007
Reason for notification	Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence	06/2000
Manifestation of disease	Clinical disease
Causal agent	FMD virus
Serotype	A
Nature of diagnosis	Clinical, Laboratory (basic), Laboratory (advanced)
Report pertains to	Entire country
Related reports	Follow-up report No. 1 (01/04/2006) Follow-up report No. 2 (13/02/2007)

New Outbreaks

Outbreak 1

Banha, AL QALYUBIYAH

Date of start of outbreak

04/06/2006

Outbreak status

Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)

Epidemiological unit

Village

Affected animals

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Cattle	15	5	0	0	6

Summary of outbreaks

Total outbreaks: 1

Outbreak statistics

Species	Apparent morbidity rate	Apparent mortality rate	Apparent case fatality rate	Proportion susceptible removed*
Cattle	33.33%	0.00%	0.00%	40.00%

* Removed from the susceptible population either through death, destruction or slaughter

Epidemiology

Source of infection

Unknown or inconclusive

Control measures

Measures already applied	Movement control inside the country Vaccination in response to the outbreak (s) Disinfection of infected premises/establishment(s) Vaccination permitted Treatment of affected animals (symptomatic treatment)
Measures to be applied	None specified