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Cairo's First Human Bird Flu Infection Confirmed [died]

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Theresa42 said:
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Well, that's in Al Ahram newspaper which is a government controlled newspaper -- so that's a very reliable source.

(So much for "stable", huh?)
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Yes, I also had reliable sources. The patient had been in critical condition, wire service reports not withstanding.
 
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niman said:
Yes, I also had reliable sources. The patient had been in critical condition, wire service reports not withstanding.
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Oh yes -- I trust you and your source(s) in Egypt, Doc! Been reliable so far.... ;)

What's still in the back of my mind, though, is that there could have been contact between this girl and family/friends in the south of Egypt. I'm not saying there was contact -- or even that my scenario is very likely -- just that the possibility is there given she was a Copt and it was Easter week.

Wouldn't want the 'mild' strain found in so many cases in the south mixing with the more deadly strain going around Egypt -- I'm presuming that would be a bad thing....
 
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15-year-old Egyptian girl dies of bird flu, the country's 14th fatality
The Associated PressPublished: April 11, 2007

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/11/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Bird-Flu.php


CAIRO, Egypt: A teenage girl has died of bird flu, apparently contracting the disease merely by buying a chicken at a market, a World Health Organization spokesman said Wednesday.

The death of Mariana Kameel Michael, 15, brings to 14 the number of Egyptians to have succumbed to the H5N1 virus since it first appeared in Egypt last year.

Most of the fatalities have been women or girls whose families were raising poultry in the backyards, and having daily contact with chicken or turkeys. But Mariana's family did not, said WHO spokesman Ibrahim el-Kardani.

She is believed to have contracted the virus three weeks ago when she bought a chicken at a market in Shoubra, Cairo, while shopping for her Christian family's preparations for the Easter holidays, said el-Kardani.

"She thought she wasn't exposed to chicken," el-Kardani said.


Egypt is one of the countries most affected by bird flu outside Asia, where the outbreak began. The country lies on a main route for migratory birds, which are believed to have brought the disease from Asia.

Health officials worry that the bird flu virus could mutate into a form that is easily spread from person to person, sparking a pandemic.
 
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http://www.emro.who.int/index.asp

Case number 34
Reported on 8 April 2007 This case is a female adolescent, 15 years old from Cairo Governorate. Date of onset of illness was on March 30. She was hospitalized into Abbasya Chest hospital on the 5<sup>th</sup> of April and the sample was taken on the 7<sup>th</sup>. It was confirmed positive for H5N1 in both MOH (7 April) and NAMRU-3 (8 April) laboratories. At the beginning, the patient denied exposure to sick poultry from the market one week before the onset of symptoms.


She died on April 10 at 7:30 pm at Abbasya Chest Hospital due to respiratory failure resulted from bi-lateral pneumonia.



Case number 33
Reported on 5 April 2007

This case is a female child, 2 years old, from Menia Governorate. It was confirmed positive for H5N1 in CPHL on the 5<sup>th</sup> of April and in NAMRU-3 on the 6<sup>th</sup>. The date of onset of symptoms was April 3 and she was admitted to the hospital on April 4 where they treated her with Tamiflu. The child had a previous history of contact with backyard poultry. She is in good health condition.
This brings up the total number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 34 with 14 deaths.

Edit by T42: Permanent link for this update >> http://www.emro.who.int/csr/ai_3334_11_04_07.htm
 
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Theresa42 said:
Oh yes -- I trust you and your source(s) in Egypt, Doc! Been reliable so far.... ;)

What's still in the back of my mind, though, is that there could have been contact between this girl and family/friends in the south of Egypt. I'm not saying there was contact -- or even that my scenario is very likely -- just that the possibility is there given she was a Copt and it was Easter week.

Wouldn't want the 'mild' strain found in so many cases in the south mixing with the more deadly strain going around Egypt -- I'm presuming that would be a bad thing....
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My understanding was that she was in critical condition and did not have contact with poultry. The reports today are trying to link a chicken bought 3 weeks ago (this is sounding like another blood pudding epi report) and now wire reoports have acknowledged her death.

The story is in the sequence and the cases to the south have either had the 3 BP deletion or the Mongolian cleavage site. The severe (fatal) cases to the north have had M230I (as have birds in the north).

The sequence of this case will be of interest. Stay tuned.
 
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CAIRO, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Egypt, bringing the Arab country's death toll to 14, the Egyptian Health Ministry said Wednesday.
The girl, identified as Marianna Kameel Mikhail, died Tuesday night at a hospital in the capital, Cairo. She was admitted with fever last week, and tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
Doctors say the girl had direct contact with farm poultry before being hospitalized. Egypt is among the countries worst affected by bird flu, with 34 human cases detected there in the past year alone. Fourteen of those infected have died, with twenty others surviving.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070411/63464877.html
 
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- Death 10th April 2007
- Hospital admission 5th April 2007
- Symptoms Onset 30th March 2007
- Bought poultry around 23rd March 2007

Time lapsed to date, 11th April 2007: 20 days - three weeks. It works out as an incubation period of roughly 7 days, an illness interval of 7 days at home, and a time to death from hospital admission of 6 days. Are these time periods unusual?
 
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Egyptian girl dies of bird flu, 14th death
11 Apr 2007 10:48:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
More (Adds comments on why treatment failed)

CAIRO, April 11 (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Egyptian girl has died in hospital of the H5N1 bird flu virus, bringing the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt to 14, a health ministry official said on Wednesday.

Marianna Kameel Mikhail, who was admitted to hospital in Cairo on Thursday, died of respiratory failure on Tuesday evening despite treatment with the antiviral Tamiflu and being placed on a respirator, a ministry statement said.

Amr Kandeel, director of communicable diseases at the Ministry of Health, said the treatment failed because the girl did not enter hospital until a week to 10 days after the symptoms started.

As in several other fatal cases in Egypt, the patient and her relatives denied she had had any recent contact with domestic poultry, Kandeel added.

Out of a total of 34 humans who have caught bird flu in Egypt, 14 have died and 19 have recovered. A two-year-old girl from central Egypt is under treatment and Kandeel said she was in a good condition.

The health ministry statement said none of Mikhail's family were found to have bird flu.

The disease hit Egypt in February 2006 and did extensive damage to the poultry industry and the economy as a whole. But the government still finds it hard to enforce restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.

Egypt has the highest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11720107.htm
 
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A 15 year old Egyptian girl has died of bird flu, bringing the number of the country's victims of the disease to 14.

The girl died of respiratory failure 5 days after she was admitted into a Cairo hospital, having tested positive to the H5N1 bird flu virus, according to health ministry officials in Egypt.

She had contracted the disease three weeks ago while buying chicken in a local market in Cairo, the World Health Organization spokesman told reporters.

Egypt is reported to be one of the countries most affected by bird flu outside Asia. The disease first appeared in the country in February 2006.

TD /BH/BG

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5688&sectionid=3510210

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Egyptian girl dies of bird flu
Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:46 PM IST



CAIRO (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Egyptian girl who tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus has died in hospital, bringing the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt to 14, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
A ministry statement said Marianna Kameel Mikhail, who was admitted to hospital in Cairo on Thursday, died of respiratory failure on Tuesday evening despite being treated with the antiviral Tamiflu and being placed on a respirator.
None of her family was found to have bird flu, it added.
"This case is the 14th death from 34 cases of bird flu infection since the disease appeared in Egypt in February 2006," the statement said.
Egypt has the highest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia.

http://in.today.reuters.com/news/ne...R_RTRJONC_0_India-293842-1.xml&archived=False
 
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11/04/2007 01:00:57 ã

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Egyptian girl dies of bird flu

Egypt's health ministry says a teenage girl who tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu has died -- raising the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt to 14.

The 15-year-old Egyptian girl has died in hospital despite being treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu and being placed on a respirator, a health ministry official said on Wednesday.

Marianna Kameel Mikhail, who was admitted to hospital in Cairo on Thursday, died of respiratory failure on Tuesday evening, a ministry statement said.

She had contracted the disease three weeks ago while buying chicken in a local market in Cairo, the World Health Organization spokesman told reporters.

Amr Kandeel, director of communicable diseases at the Ministry of Health, said the treatment failed because the girl did not enter hospital until a week to 10 days after the symptoms started.

The girl was hospitalized last week.

Officials say none of her family members was found to have the deadly form of bird flu.

As in several other fatal cases in Egypt, the patient and her relatives denied she had had any recent contact with domestic poultry, Kandeel added.

Out of a total of 34 humans who have caught bird flu in Egypt, 14 have died and 19 have recovered. A two-year-old girl from central Egypt is under treatment and Kandeel said she was in a good condition.

The health ministry statement said none of Mikhail's family were found to have bird flu.

The disease hit Egypt in February 2006 and did extensive damage to the poultry industry and the economy as a whole. But the government still finds it hard to enforce restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.

Egypt has the highest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia.

-Agencies-
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This report says Marianna [Marina] was admitted to "Nasser institute hospital" [Nasr City hospital?] on Thurs, April 5 and wasn't transferred to Cairo Abbyssia Chest hospital until Sun, April 8....

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The death of the condition no. 14 by the bird flu
The victim is a pupil in the preparatory ..From the relief gardens
April 11, 2007

Ahmed Al Khatib Wabdallah Hashem wrote:

Last night the child was dead Marina is Kumail Mikhail "15 years" a pupil by the preparatory from the relief gardens affected by her injury by the bird flu disease ..And she is the condition no. 14 that dies by this disease since its appearance in Egypt.

The receiving of a second department commissioner is in Nasr City a signal from Al Sadr's hospital by the Abbasid with the death of "Marina" that Nasser's institute hospital in 5 April for the suspicion of its injury by the disease's institute hospital has entered and have been transferred to the chest hospital in the eighth from the month [April 8] himself ..And its giving the necessary treatment took place but it was dead after the inflammation of lungs strongly and that led to a failure in the respiration.

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/almessa/today/first/ [<< not a permalink]

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21740
 
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Worth repeating:
Niman said:
...and more cases of avian influenza were detected in humans there [in Egypt] in 2007 than in any other country.

Sixteen cases of the highly pathogenic virus were reported in Egypt since the start of the year, including five in the first 10 days of April alone.
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Sounds like no backyard poultry to blame then...
Susie said:
She is believed to have contracted the virus three weeks ago when she bought a chicken at a market in Shoubra, Cairo, while shopping for her Christian family's preparations for the Easter holidays, said el-Kardani.
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Niman said:
My understanding was that she was in critical condition and did not have contact with poultry. The reports today are trying to link a chicken bought 3 weeks ago (this is sounding like another blood pudding epi report)....
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An account of Marina's illness and death by a friend of the family....

Google & sakhr machine-translation mash-up:

One eyewitness tells the tragedy of the latest victim of bird flu
April 12, 2007

Wrote Darren Farghali:

"The newspapers reported on April 9 that Marina Komail Mikhail [aka Marina Camille Mikhail] is the injured a number 31 by the bird flu disease in Egypt, and it has shocked me and hurt me that this innocent girl turns to just a number in a long list from the miserable who the disease killed, because I know the story of Marina disease that a day started April 1." So she started but for welding the journalist is in "Al-Ahram Weekly" her testimony to "The Egyptian Today" [Al Masry Al Youm] about the child Marina Komail who was dead the day before yesterday after her injury by the bird flu virus, and it said "but for": "I followed up the disease of "Marina" since the first moment the judgement that it is a very close friend of the family of the girl child."

And she explained "but for" to we disputed that injured one day current April 1 with the rise of temperature, then have been presented to the family doctor in Shubra that described for it [her] "an antibiotic" [anti viral according to Google] he did not do a thing, then she went to a second and third doctor and every time that the medicines were changing and at their presentation to a fourth doctor that decided their reservation in the hospital of Imababa fevers because it is a doubt in the presence of a non natural matter.

And she says "but for": I went with it one day April 3 to the hospital of Imababa fevers, she was collapsed totally and is not capable of the walking, then have been transferred on "a stretcher" a strange the form, by two damaged wheels, led by it the nurse is hundreds of metres in the open air and she is the injured with heat [fever] that surpasses 40 degrees, until we came to a big ward an expression about compact kiosks. On Wednesday April 4, went but for a welding of viewing the ill child and after the length of a pains, she came to the part that lies in it, then she found her almost unconscious, then request the transfer of child "Marina Komail" to the intensive care, and remain negotiating three hours, until the administration agrees Ali transferred "Marina" to the care after the payment of expenditures, and we walk hundreds of metres for the arrival at the care, and there the surprise happens: the waters are disconnected about the intensive care and the part a closed is!

Thursday dawn April 5, the doctor issued the decision of Marina transfer from Imababa fevers [to Cairo's Abbyssia Chest Hosp], and follows up but for a welding: the ambulance went out after entreaties and wishes, because the aid driver does not want to move from his place at four in the morning, until for the rescue of a patient between life and death, and he exceeds the aid on several hospitals that refuses its crowds a reception "the condition", and at the morning its acceptance of only the hospital of the Abbasid chest.

Saturday April 7, the girl lies in the intensive care in the hospital of the Abbasid chest, and says "but for": it is a model of the medical enterprises worthy of the appreciation, the analyses have appeared quickly, and made sure that Marina is injured by the bird flu, then the notification of Ministry of Health that in the child house Shubra carried out the usual health measures, then informed the press so that Marina turns to a new number in the disease list.

Tuesday at night April 10 Marina was dead, and says Lula Laham family friend: I could not prevent myself from this testimony to keep my heart from the explosion, the child died Marina after a terrible conflict with the disease and the neglect.

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=54599&r=t

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21769
 
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