New human infection in Egypt
October 11th, 2006
An Egyptian woman hospitalized almost a week ago with symptoms of bird flu has been confirmed to carry the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, after thorough laboratory testing. The 39 year old woman is the country’s first case in almost five months. She has received treatment with Tamiflu and her condition is now reported to be stable. Egypt is the country that has been affected the most by the disease, excluding Asian countries, as numerous cases of human infections have been reported until earlier this year. This is now Egypt’s 15th case.