Egypt to resume poultry exports after 14-year struggle with bird flu - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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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 — An Egyptian poultry vendor weighs chicken for a customer at his shop in Damietta, north of Cairo, Dec. 5, 2008. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images

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)

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