13.04.2009

Egypt

An international workshop staged yesterday by the FAO in collaboration with the General Authority for Veterinary Services in Cairo unveiled that veterinary vaccines covered only 36% of Egypt's total rural poultry (300 million birds), which means that 64% of these birds do not get any vaccine.
The participants in the workshop, held to assess the national campaign to fight avian influenza, stressed the necessity to boost the role of the General Authority for Veterinary Services and to provide the material and human resources to control the disease.
They also pointed out that the veterinary bodies are the most important organs to fight veterinary pandemics, yet in Egypt these services cover only 10% of the poultry production.
They also said Egypt lacked slaughterhouses and was scarcely equipped to detect other animal diseases.