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EGYPT - April 3, 2007+ - News on confirmed/suspected cases
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Theresa42
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2862 sus cases in Egypt to date (since March 2006)....
Google-translated from Arabic:
Mountain: Cure rate of children infected with avian influenza reached 100% [so far]
April 3, 2007
Cairo-MENA - Dr Hatim al-Jabali, Welfare and that the proportion of the population had recovered incidence of avian influenza among children reached 100% and the recovery rate of the total cases hit 65%, one of the highest rates of cure in the world, as the global ratio to only 32%.
That, of the 32 cases discovered since the emergence of the disease in February of last year and so far 11 children have been recovered seven children and left all of the hospital and four children still Bmschetvi Manshiet Bakry 15,000 are receiving treatment for a cure and stable condition and expected departure during the current week after reassuring them died and 13 cases of the cases Amaalthmani remaining cases have recovered fully.
He stressed that the high mountainous cure rates, especially among children due to the high and increasing proportion of awareness among mothers of the seriousness of the disease and prompt reporting of cases and not hide the facts that causes injury due to children's exposure to domestic birds and the discovery of infected cases early and give appropriate treatment of drug Altamiflo and in a timely manner.
He explained that the reasons for the high rate of infection among these children due to the negligence of mothers and leaving children playing in the dust, mixed with infected birds, pointing out that there are now 13 thousand rural pilot trained to do educating people in the villages and hamlets from house to house in how to deal with birds and the proper ways of Education the right to prevent them from exposure to the disease.
The mountainous that the total cases of suspected infection contracted avian flu has now reached 2862 cases since the disease circumcision has been testing and analysis necessary, stressing that the ministry is keen to commit complete transparency in declaration about everything related to avian influenza.
He pointed out that the Governorate of Kafr Al-Sheikh was at the forefront as the number of suspected cases of 359 cases, followed by Western [Al Gharbiyah] 341 state and then launched [Al Minufiyah] 229, 291 and then Cairo and Giza 279 cases while the number of cases in the governorate of Aswan 47 cases suspected infection.
He confirmed that there are three main reasons behind the continued spread of the bird flu disease in Egypt in the forefront of continuing education bird houses despite awareness campaigns and warnings by the Ministry through awareness campaigns at all levels for all citizens, pointing out that this is the gravest danger in the face of the problem.
He added that the second danger is not to inform citizens of doctors Bamkhaltthm of birds at the beginning of the disease and trying to concealment, which was negatively affects the speed of treatment.
He said at the conclusion of his statement that the reason Khatralthalth and last is the continuation of the transport, handling live birds between the provinces and non-adherence to the controls set by the Higher Committee to combat avian flu, which prompted the government to prepare a bill to criminalize and strengthen penalties for the transfer and circulation of birds in preparation for presentation to the People's Assembly for approval.
http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Politics/April/3/birdflu.aspx
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21014
2862 sus cases in Egypt to date (since March 2006)....
Google-translated from Arabic:
Mountain: Cure rate of children infected with avian influenza reached 100% [so far]
April 3, 2007
Cairo-MENA - Dr Hatim al-Jabali, Welfare and that the proportion of the population had recovered incidence of avian influenza among children reached 100% and the recovery rate of the total cases hit 65%, one of the highest rates of cure in the world, as the global ratio to only 32%.
That, of the 32 cases discovered since the emergence of the disease in February of last year and so far 11 children have been recovered seven children and left all of the hospital and four children still Bmschetvi Manshiet Bakry 15,000 are receiving treatment for a cure and stable condition and expected departure during the current week after reassuring them died and 13 cases of the cases Amaalthmani remaining cases have recovered fully.
He stressed that the high mountainous cure rates, especially among children due to the high and increasing proportion of awareness among mothers of the seriousness of the disease and prompt reporting of cases and not hide the facts that causes injury due to children's exposure to domestic birds and the discovery of infected cases early and give appropriate treatment of drug Altamiflo and in a timely manner.
He explained that the reasons for the high rate of infection among these children due to the negligence of mothers and leaving children playing in the dust, mixed with infected birds, pointing out that there are now 13 thousand rural pilot trained to do educating people in the villages and hamlets from house to house in how to deal with birds and the proper ways of Education the right to prevent them from exposure to the disease.
The mountainous that the total cases of suspected infection contracted avian flu has now reached 2862 cases since the disease circumcision has been testing and analysis necessary, stressing that the ministry is keen to commit complete transparency in declaration about everything related to avian influenza.
He pointed out that the Governorate of Kafr Al-Sheikh was at the forefront as the number of suspected cases of 359 cases, followed by Western [Al Gharbiyah] 341 state and then launched [Al Minufiyah] 229, 291 and then Cairo and Giza 279 cases while the number of cases in the governorate of Aswan 47 cases suspected infection.
He confirmed that there are three main reasons behind the continued spread of the bird flu disease in Egypt in the forefront of continuing education bird houses despite awareness campaigns and warnings by the Ministry through awareness campaigns at all levels for all citizens, pointing out that this is the gravest danger in the face of the problem.
He added that the second danger is not to inform citizens of doctors Bamkhaltthm of birds at the beginning of the disease and trying to concealment, which was negatively affects the speed of treatment.
He said at the conclusion of his statement that the reason Khatralthalth and last is the continuation of the transport, handling live birds between the provinces and non-adherence to the controls set by the Higher Committee to combat avian flu, which prompted the government to prepare a bill to criminalize and strengthen penalties for the transfer and circulation of birds in preparation for presentation to the People's Assembly for approval.
http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Politics/April/3/birdflu.aspx
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21014
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Shannon Bennett
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This then explains the meeting in Cairo by WHO last month. I applaud the Egyptian government for recognizing the need to publish the actual number of suspected cases. Given the potential financial repercussions for sharing this with the world it was a bold yet wise decision. Part of the rationale might be due to the generally milder form the disease is exhibiting. While this does give us a glimmer of hope it should also remind us that H5N1 is here and here to stay.
This then explains the meeting in Cairo by WHO last month. I applaud the Egyptian government for recognizing the need to publish the actual number of suspected cases. Given the potential financial repercussions for sharing this with the world it was a bold yet wise decision. Part of the rationale might be due to the generally milder form the disease is exhibiting. While this does give us a glimmer of hope it should also remind us that H5N1 is here and here to stay.
Theresa42
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Re: EGYPT - April 3, 2007+ - News on confirmed/suspected cases
Kafr El Sheikh: 19 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Al Gharbiyah: 74 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Cairo: 29 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Giza: 72 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Aswan: 33 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
[One (or both) of the numbers is wrong for Al Minufiyah governorate -- they can't have had less sus cases in this report (229) than the last one (272). Maybe the new figure was supposed to be 329? Dunno.]
Note that these are not all of the new sus cases for the last 7 weeks -- there were 570 totally according to this latest, official report. The ones listed above only amount to roughly half of that.
Edit: Here are the original figures ... Feb --> Apr
Kafr El Sheikh: 340 --> 359 [+19]
Al Gharbiyah: 267 --> 341 [+74]
Cairo: 262 --> 291 [+29]
Giza: 207 --> 279 [+71]
Aswan: 14 --> 47 [+33]
Comparing the numbers for each of these governorates mentioned in this latest report to the numbers from the previous report on Feb 13, we can calculate how many suspected cases there have been in each of them during the last 7 weeks:post #2 said:
Kafr El Sheikh: 19 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Al Gharbiyah: 74 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Cairo: 29 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Giza: 72 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
Aswan: 33 new sus cases in the last 7 weeks
[One (or both) of the numbers is wrong for Al Minufiyah governorate -- they can't have had less sus cases in this report (229) than the last one (272). Maybe the new figure was supposed to be 329? Dunno.]
Note that these are not all of the new sus cases for the last 7 weeks -- there were 570 totally according to this latest, official report. The ones listed above only amount to roughly half of that.
Edit: Here are the original figures ... Feb --> Apr
Kafr El Sheikh: 340 --> 359 [+19]
Al Gharbiyah: 267 --> 341 [+74]
Cairo: 262 --> 291 [+29]
Giza: 207 --> 279 [+71]
Aswan: 14 --> 47 [+33]
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Re: EGYPT - April 3, 2007+ - News on confirmed/suspected cases
From Min of Health:
Egyptian committee: H5N1 human-to-human transmission inaccurate
An Egyptian anti-H5N1 committee said that the two human bird flu cases detected at a house were caused by contacts with infected birds.
It denied that the reported cases were caused by human-to-human transmission.
It is possible that H5N1 can transmit among people, the committee said, but this transmission has not been reported anywhere around the world, it added.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is ready to deal with such possibilities through pre-set plans and programmes, the committee said.
It said that 32 Egyptians have tested positive for the avian flu since the virus was first detected in Egypt in February 2006.
http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/flu01021191.htm
From Min of Health:
Egyptian committee: H5N1 human-to-human transmission inaccurate
An Egyptian anti-H5N1 committee said that the two human bird flu cases detected at a house were caused by contacts with infected birds.
It denied that the reported cases were caused by human-to-human transmission.
It is possible that H5N1 can transmit among people, the committee said, but this transmission has not been reported anywhere around the world, it added.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is ready to deal with such possibilities through pre-set plans and programmes, the committee said.
It said that 32 Egyptians have tested positive for the avian flu since the virus was first detected in Egypt in February 2006.
http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/flu01021191.htm
Theresa42
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Re: EGYPT - April 3, 2007+ - News on confirmed/suspected cases
Hat-tip, Calmom!
Egyptian child, 2, tests positive for bird flu
Thu Apr 5, 2007
CAIRO (Reuters) - A two-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 33rd human case in the Arab country, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Thursday.
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Fatmah Farouk Abdel-Gawwad from central Egypt, MENA reported.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0518152920070405?feedType=RSS
Hat-tip, Calmom!
Egyptian child, 2, tests positive for bird flu
Thu Apr 5, 2007
CAIRO (Reuters) - A two-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 33rd human case in the Arab country, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Thursday.
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Fatmah Farouk Abdel-Gawwad from central Egypt, MENA reported.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0518152920070405?feedType=RSS
Theresa42
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She's from Al Minyah governorate. Hat-tip, pugmom!
Google-translated from Arabic:
Announcement of the 33 injury cases of avian flu in Egypt
4/5/2007
Cairo - The Ministry of Health on Thursday evening from injury and thirty three human bird flu cases in Egypt, namely the status of the girl child Alvoalh Bani Mazar in Minya governorate.
Dr. Rahman Shahin, spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population that the third session of the child Fatima Farouk Ahmed Abdel Gawad, a two-year-old entered the hospital pathogenesis of Beni Mazar Wednesday suffering from a high temperature following Mkhalttha of birds suspected of being infected with bird flu disease, condition stable.
He added that they had been given the necessary treatment of the ailing property Altamiflo and is currently working epidemiological investigation of all family members - according to the Middle East News Agency.
Shaheen explained that the total casualties contracted avian flu since the emergence of the disease in February last year and so far reached 33 cases, 13 of which died, while 18 cases were recovered from the departure of three cases Thursday of Manshiet Bakry Hospital after fully recover, while there are still cases to receive treatment, and two of two children, one Manshiet Bakry Hospital and was recovering, and the other hospital pathogenesis of Beni Mazar.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population said that among the total number of cases there were 15 cases of children, were recovered from 13 of these cases.
http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Local/april/5/birdflu.aspx
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21279
She's from Al Minyah governorate. Hat-tip, pugmom!
Google-translated from Arabic:
Announcement of the 33 injury cases of avian flu in Egypt
4/5/2007
Cairo - The Ministry of Health on Thursday evening from injury and thirty three human bird flu cases in Egypt, namely the status of the girl child Alvoalh Bani Mazar in Minya governorate.
Dr. Rahman Shahin, spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population that the third session of the child Fatima Farouk Ahmed Abdel Gawad, a two-year-old entered the hospital pathogenesis of Beni Mazar Wednesday suffering from a high temperature following Mkhalttha of birds suspected of being infected with bird flu disease, condition stable.
He added that they had been given the necessary treatment of the ailing property Altamiflo and is currently working epidemiological investigation of all family members - according to the Middle East News Agency.
Shaheen explained that the total casualties contracted avian flu since the emergence of the disease in February last year and so far reached 33 cases, 13 of which died, while 18 cases were recovered from the departure of three cases Thursday of Manshiet Bakry Hospital after fully recover, while there are still cases to receive treatment, and two of two children, one Manshiet Bakry Hospital and was recovering, and the other hospital pathogenesis of Beni Mazar.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population said that among the total number of cases there were 15 cases of children, were recovered from 13 of these cases.
http://www.masrawy.com/News/2007/Egypt/Local/april/5/birdflu.aspx
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21279
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Theresa42
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Sounds like there's been a bunch of recoveries among the kids.
According to this report, there are only two left in hospital at the moment -- one of whom is this newly confirmed 2 yr old (I think?):
Sounds like there's been a bunch of recoveries among the kids.
According to this report, there are only two left in hospital at the moment -- one of whom is this newly confirmed 2 yr old (I think?):
Theresa42 said:
Re: EGYPT - April 3, 2007+ - News on confirmed/suspected cases
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</TD></TR><TR><TD>CAIRO. A two-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, bringing to 33 the number of human cases in the most populous Arab country, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Thursday.
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Fatmah Farouk Abdel-Gawwad from central Egypt, MENA reported. She was admitted to hospital on Wednesday, suffering from high fever and was being treated by Tamiflu, the agency said.
The girl contracted the virus after coming into contact with infected birds but was in a stable condition, MENA quoted the ministry's spokesman as saying.
Egypt has the highest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia. Thirteen Egyptians have died from bird flu since it first surfaced in the country's poultry a year ago.
Most of those who fell ill were reported to have had contact with sick or dead household birds, primarily in northern Egypt.
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http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n109521
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class="colored_in_333 boldWeight">Egyptian child with 2 positive tests for bird flu</TD></TR><TR><TD>
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Fatmah Farouk Abdel-Gawwad from central Egypt, MENA reported. She was admitted to hospital on Wednesday, suffering from high fever and was being treated by Tamiflu, the agency said.
The girl contracted the virus after coming into contact with infected birds but was in a stable condition, MENA quoted the ministry's spokesman as saying.
Egypt has the highest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia. Thirteen Egyptians have died from bird flu since it first surfaced in the country's poultry a year ago.
Most of those who fell ill were reported to have had contact with sick or dead household birds, primarily in northern Egypt.
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http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n109521
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The H5N1 from the earlier case in Minya was virtually identical to the three cases in Aswan and all had the Mongolian cleavage site.
The H5N1 from the earlier case in Minya was virtually identical to the three cases in Aswan and all had the Mongolian cleavage site.
Re: EGYPT - April 3, 2007+ - News on confirmed/suspected cases
from intelink
Egypt: H5N1 Suspected
4/6/07 Media Reports--A national source reports that a pediatrician and "specialist" in childhood diseases at the Manshia al-Bakry Hospital [city unknown] announced that a 5 year-old girl and a 16 year-old male were detained [with suspected AI]. [No details were provided about symptoms, treatments, contact with poultry, or towns of origin].
from intelink
Egypt: H5N1 Suspected
4/6/07 Media Reports--A national source reports that a pediatrician and "specialist" in childhood diseases at the Manshia al-Bakry Hospital [city unknown] announced that a 5 year-old girl and a 16 year-old male were detained [with suspected AI]. [No details were provided about symptoms, treatments, contact with poultry, or towns of origin].
Theresa42
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Manshia al-Bakry is the children's hosptial in Cairo. Most of the recent child cases have been transferred to Manshia al-Bakry including all of the infected Aswan kids.
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Commentary at
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04060702/H5N1_Minya_2.html
Commentary at
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04060702/H5N1_Minya_2.html
Theresa42
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Re: EGYPT - April 3, 2007+ - News on confirmed/suspected cases
The most recently confirmed case in Egypt is from Bani Mazar, Al Minyah governorate -- ca. 40 miles up the Nile from Bani Suwayf (Beni Suef)...
Theresa42
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Edit: Note that they are both from in/around Bani Mazar -- the same place that the most recently confirmed case is from.
Google-translated from Arabic:
The stabilization of the situation No. 32 avian influenza
April 2, 2007
Books and fulfillment Bakri Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, Said Mahmoud, Nafie explained
The Ministry of Health announced yesterday evening, the first of 32 cases of human infection of avian influenza, a girl Mariam Isa Fattah 4 years.
She said Dr Zainab Aziz pediatric specialists and treatment of the girl child of Mary Hospital in Manshiet Bakry told Egyptian today: the case of Mary reassuring, is expected to come out over the next couple of days.
She added: Zainab was also decided to exit the children infected with the virus, Mahmoud Mohammed Shalabi 7 years Sohag, Ibrahim Mahmoud Helmi 4 years from Qena, today Monday stability after their cases fully.
In Menoufiya, were detained child Habib Mohamed Hamdi two years, while two were seized in the province of Minya status of Beni Mazar, namely Karim Hashim 5 years Irene Abdalmseh staffing 16.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=53380&r=t
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21487
Hat-tips to AnnieB -- for pointing out the probable identities of these two sus cases (they are probably the 2 sus cases from Al Minyah as reported in this article) -- and to pugmom for the translation!
Edit: Note that they are both from in/around Bani Mazar -- the same place that the most recently confirmed case is from.
Google-translated from Arabic:
The stabilization of the situation No. 32 avian influenza
April 2, 2007
Books and fulfillment Bakri Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, Said Mahmoud, Nafie explained
The Ministry of Health announced yesterday evening, the first of 32 cases of human infection of avian influenza, a girl Mariam Isa Fattah 4 years.
She said Dr Zainab Aziz pediatric specialists and treatment of the girl child of Mary Hospital in Manshiet Bakry told Egyptian today: the case of Mary reassuring, is expected to come out over the next couple of days.
She added: Zainab was also decided to exit the children infected with the virus, Mahmoud Mohammed Shalabi 7 years Sohag, Ibrahim Mahmoud Helmi 4 years from Qena, today Monday stability after their cases fully.
In Menoufiya, were detained child Habib Mohamed Hamdi two years, while two were seized in the province of Minya status of Beni Mazar, namely Karim Hashim 5 years Irene Abdalmseh staffing 16.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=53380&r=t
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21487
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Egyptian girl, 15, tests positive for bird flu
08 Apr 2007 12:34:28 GMT
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CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 34th human case in the Arab country, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Sunday.
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Marianna Kameel Mikhail from the Shubra district of Cairo, MENA reported
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08730340.htm
Egyptian girl, 15, tests positive for bird flu
08 Apr 2007 12:34:28 GMT
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CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 34th human case in the Arab country, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Sunday.
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Marianna Kameel Mikhail from the Shubra district of Cairo, MENA reported
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08730340.htm
sharon sanders
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Shubra District
Shubra District
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This case does NOT appear to be mild.
This case does NOT appear to be mild.
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Egyptian girl, 15, tests positive for bird flu
08 Apr 2007 12:54:40 GMT
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CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Sunday, becoming the 34th human case in the country and the first in the capital.
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Marianna Kameel Mikhail from Cairo's Shubra district, MENA reported.
The girl was admitted to hospital on Thursday suffering from a high fever and is now being treated with Tamiflu and is in a stable condition, the agency said.
She contracted the virus after coming into contact with infected birds, MENA quoted the ministry spokesman as saying.
Egypt has the highest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia, and 13 Egyptians have died of bird flu since it first surfaced in the country's poultry a year ago.
Most of those who fell ill were reported to have had contact with sick or dead household birds, mainly in northern Egypt.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08730796.htm
Egyptian girl, 15, tests positive for bird flu
08 Apr 2007 12:54:40 GMT
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CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Sunday, becoming the 34th human case in the country and the first in the capital.
A Health Ministry spokesman identified the girl as Marianna Kameel Mikhail from Cairo's Shubra district, MENA reported.
The girl was admitted to hospital on Thursday suffering from a high fever and is now being treated with Tamiflu and is in a stable condition, the agency said.
She contracted the virus after coming into contact with infected birds, MENA quoted the ministry spokesman as saying.
Egypt has the highest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia, and 13 Egyptians have died of bird flu since it first surfaced in the country's poultry a year ago.
Most of those who fell ill were reported to have had contact with sick or dead household birds, mainly in northern Egypt.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08730796.htm
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