Despite complaints, PA determined to ban bird imports amid bird flu outbreak in Israel - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ahmad Melhem

Ahmad Melhem

Dec 29, 2020

A Palestinian vendor cleans chicken at his shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 06 January 2008. Palestenian Health Minister Fathi Mughli said today Palestinians should be vigilant after a case of H5N1 strain of bird flu that is dangerous to humans was detected in the northern Israeli town of Binyamina on the Mediterranean coast. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images) — A Palestinian vendor cleans chicken at his shop; Palestenian Health Minister Fathi Mughli said today Palestinians should be vigilant after a case of H5N1 strain of bird flu that is dangerous to humans was detected in the northern Israeli town of Binyamina on the Mediterranean coast, Ramallah, West Bank, Jan. 6 2008. — Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images

A woman examines a live chicken before buying it on the outskirts of Cairo, December 4, 2014. Another Egyptian has died of H5N1 bird flu, bringing the total number of deaths in Egypt from the virus to seven this year out of 14 identified cases, the health ministry said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT HEALTH) - RTR4GPFL

Egypt struggles to cope with bird flu

Alexander Liddington-Cox

Alexander Liddington-Cox

Poultry is seen in a cage in the Israeli village of Aviel January 3, 2008. Israeli officials said on Thursday the deadly bird flu strain H5N1 had been found in dead chickens from a kindergarten petting zoo. "The H5N1 bird flu strain has been found in the fowl," the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement, referring to 18 dead chickens found in the kindergarten. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL) - GM1DWYPJATAA

Smuggling from Israel plagues Palestinian poultry farmers

Ahmad Melhem

In Ramallah, reporting on politics

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY INES BEL AIBA: An Egyptian poultry vendor weighs chicken for a customer at his shop in Damietta, 195 km north of Cairo, 05 December 2008. In the Nile Delta town, where Egypt's latest fatal bird flu victim Hanem Atwa Ibrahim lived, inhabitants fear the authorities more than the virus. Most of the inhabitants of the Ezbet el-Lahm district pay scant attention to the government's campaign against the H5N1 virus which, after a summer respite, killed four people, all women, in the space of

Egypt to resume poultry exports after 14-year struggle with bird flu

Mohammad Hanafi

Mohammad Hanafi

A girl carries a chicken after buying it on the outskirts of Cairo, December 4, 2014. Another Egyptian has died of H5N1 bird flu, bringing the total number of deaths in Egypt from the virus to seven this year out of 14 identified cases, the health ministry said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT HEALTH) - RTR4GPDG

Egyptians criticize government's response to epidemics

Rami Galal