Egypt - Woman hospitalized in Minya, results bird flu test pending

[Gert van der Hoek]

Suspected of infecting a housewife with bird flu in Menia

Friday, January 26, 2018

Al-Minya hospital was detained on Friday after being suspected of bird flu.

Where she arrived today, a housewife to Menia General Hospital, suffering from a state of severe fatigue, and doctors suspected of the hospital infected with bird flu, and immediately was a sample of the case and sent to the Ministry of Health laboratories to ascertain the extent of infection or not, she receives medical care.

[Gert van der Hoek]

Minia Health: We have not monitored any cases of bird flu

Saturday, 27 January 2018

The Directorate of Health in Minya free of the province of bird flu and the lack of monitoring of any case infected, pointing out that what has been taken by some newspapers and websites on the suspicion of the injury of a housewife bird flu is a disgrace.

Dr. Umniah Ragab, deputy minister of health in Minya, said in a statement on Friday that a team of preventive request was immediately assigned to investigate the situation and to investigate the matter and to take the necessary precautionary measures in this regard.

Umniah confirmed that it has been confirmed that no cases of suspected bird flu in hospitals belonging to the Directorate of Health Minya, especially Minia General Hospital, which confirms the lack of good health in toto.