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Egypt: Baby girl has bird flu

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Egyptian Ministry of Health announcing the No. 77 human infection from bird flu

Health 30/05/2009

Cairo - 30-5 (KUNA) - A spokesman of the Ministry of Health in Egypt, Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin from injury No. 77 confirmed human bird flu (H 5 to 1) of the baby girl, aged one year and two months of contact with poultry suspected of having contracted the disease.

Shaheen said in a press statement that the situation of the girl child from one of the villages of the affected provinces (Dakahliya) north of the capital, Cairo, Egypt, is now stable now, adding that the symptoms have emerged since the 5-day and entered on their hospital suffering from a fever, running nose and a rise in temperature.

Dr. Shaheen said he was giving the child a drug (Tamiflu) has been the work of testing and analysis confirmed the disease and today she is now being transferred to a hospital (the Tamiflu drug) in Cairo to complete the treatment.

State bird flu emerged in Egypt in February 2006 where he was so far 77 patients with 27 deaths and the Egyptian government to fight bird flu, warning that inaction in the fight against the disease poses a threat, especially considering that the virus has recently high temperatures to the injured.

The Supreme National Committee to combat bird flu, has decided to develop a methodology in the fight against bird flu at the level of the governorates in the coming period with the activation of the efforts to combat it in order to eliminate it altogether.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2002088&Language=ar

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