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For the second time in less than a week, bird flu has claimed another life in Egypt.
This report from Middle East Online.
Bird flu claims another life in Egypt
30 year-old Egyptian woman’s death from H5N1 strain of bird flu is 22nd among 49 cases in Egypt.
CAIRO - Egypt's health ministry announced the death on Friday of a woman from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the 22nd human death from the disease since it was discovered here in 2006.
"Walaa Ahmed Abdel Geleel, 30, died on Friday, the 22nd death from bird flu from among 49 cases in the country since the disease was first discovered (in Egypt), a ministry official told the MENA news agency.
She first showed signs of infection on April 2 and was taken on April 9 to a Cairo hospital, where she died, MENA reported.
Abdel Geleel's case was Egypt's second death from the disease in a week.
On Saturday, Mohammed Idris Hassan Ibrahim, 19, from the Nile Delta province of Beheira, died in hospital after being unsuccessfully treated with Tamiflu.
In January, four people died of the disease in just one week, after safety precautions had been relaxed in the belief that the virus had disappeared when no case had been reported for six months.
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