Egyptian girl dies of bird flu - MENA
Source: Reuters
(Updates with background) CAIRO, Dec 25 (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Egyptian girl died of bird flu on Monday, the Egyptian Health Ministry said in a statement. The girl was admitted to a hospital on Dec. 20 after being diagnosed with the disease, the official Middle East News Agency quoted an Egyptian Health Ministry statement as saying. Her death brings the number of total human deaths from H5N1 in Egypt to nine, and the number of remaining human cases to 17 since the virus first surfaced in Egyptian poultry in February. An Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Sunday, hours after tests confirmed she and two other members of her extended family had been suffering from the highly pathogenic virus, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said. A regional WHO official said the 15-year-old was from that family. "She is from the same family, yes, she was given tamiflu but this didn't work out," said WHO regional adviser for communicable diseases surveillance Hassan el-Bushra. A 26-year-old man from the family has also been hospitalised with bird flu. Bushra said the family raised ducks in their home, and the brother and sister had slaughtered the flock after a number of ducks had become sick and died.
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