Bird Flu – Egyptian Woman Dies Bringing Total To 3 Dead In One Week In Egypt
December 31, 2007 by mimmson
Filed under Flu Pandemic - Top News Stories
An Egyptian woman who had been in contact with sick birds died of the avian influenza virus on Monday, the third death in the most populous Arab country from bird flu in less than a week, the Health Ministry said.
The ministry said in a statement Firdaus Mohamed Hadad of Menoufia province in the Nile Delta was taken to hospital on Saturday and died early on Monday.
“She suffered from a high fever and difficulty breathing and had a pulmonary infection after coming into contact with birds suspected of being infected with avian flu,” the statement said. “She was placed on a respirator but died at dawn on Monday.”
The death was the 18th bird flu fatality and the 43rd human case in Egypt since the deadly H5N1 virus arrived in early 2006.
It came a day after a 25-year-old Egyptian woman died of bird flu in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. Another woman, Ola Younis, died of bird flu on Wednesday in Beni Suef province south of Cairo.
It is the third winter that the virus has struck after lying low during Egypt’s hot summers, when it is much less likely to spread from one carrier to another.
