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After a two very quiet months, Egypt is now reporting a second human infection for the month of June. This time, a 4-year old girl, once again from Qena, has the virus. She is reportedly in stable condition.
Four-year-old Egyptian girl has bird flu
Mon 11 Jun 2007, 17:08 GMT
CAIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - A four-year-old girl has contracted the bird flu virus in southern Egypt, the 36th case among humans in the Arab world's most populous country, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
Fifteen of Egypt's bird flu cases have proven fatal.
Dina Ali Taghyan from Abu Diyab village in Qena province was admitted to hospital on Sunday with a high temperature, pneumonia and difficulty breathing, and had been exposed to birds suspected of having bird flu, the ministry said.
She was taken to a hospital in the capital Cairo and is in a stable condition under treatment, it added in a statement.
She is the second case in Egypt in two weeks after a lull of nearly two months. Egyptian officials had said they expected the virus to lie low during the hot summer, following the pattern it set last year after the initial outbreak in February 2006.
The other recent case, a 10-year-old girl also from Qena, died in hospital on Saturday. Delays in reporting and diagnosing her infection may have contributed to her death.
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