22nd victim in Egypt
February 17th, 2007
As an Egyptian woman died following a bird flu infection, a five year old boy was confirmed as the country’s 22nd human case. World Health Organization experts are saying that delayed reports in the cases discovered lead to a late reporting of the bird flu cases in the last weeks in Egypt. The last person to succumb to the disease is a 37 year year old woman who had been reported as being in a stable and improving condition following her transfer to a major hospital in Cairo. The 5 year old boy is being treated with Tamiflu, as he tested positive for avian influenza earlier this week. Most of the people becoming infected with bird flu in Egypt had been in close contact with poultry at their residences.