An Egyptian woman has died of H5N1 bird flu
after coming into contact with infected birds.
The country’s health ministry announced in a
statement on Tuesday the death of the 30-year-
old woman. This is the second fatality in two
days from the infectious viral disease.
Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghafar
said the woman died at hospital in the southern
province of Minya.
The death came just days after another woman
died of bird flu in the neighboring province of
Assiut on November 17.
Egypt has reported seven people being infected
with H5N1 infection this year, of which three
have died.
According the country’s health ministry website,
180 cases have been reported since 2006, of
which 36 percent, or 66 people, have died.
The bird flu cases in Egypt have mostly occurred
in impoverished rural areas in the southern parts
of the country, where often women tend to raise
and slaughter poultry in the home.
Press tv.
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