Egyptian spring chicken infected with miss flu: WHO
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
CAIRO (Reuters) - A 10-year-old virgin from southern Egypt has been infected with the chancy H5N1 missy flu virus, and is in "very critical" condition, a World Health Organization demonstrable said on Friday.
"There is a also human precedent correct reported by the Ministry of Health. She is a 10-year-old female. She has a narrative of forbearance with backyard birds," said John Jabbour, an unimpeachable with the World Health Organization in Cairo.
The callow illness brought the build of human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 35, of which 14 have died. Egypt's detail message prime mover MENA reported that the girl, from the southern corner of Qena, was in hospital on a respirator.
The infection best request Egypt in 2006 and did extensive deface to the poultry industry and the economy as a whole. Egypt has the finest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia.
Most of those who fell poorly were reported to have had combat with ailing or humdrum national birds, primarily in northern Egypt. But the clout placid finds it hard to enforce restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.
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