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In what is becoming a disturbing trend, this is the fourth child in a row to be infected with the H5N1 virus in Egypt. The first two have recovered, while the third case, a 4 year-old boy, remains in the hospital.
Egyptian 10-year-old tests positive for bird flu
CAIRO, March 14 (Reuters) - A ten-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 25th human case in the country, a World Health Organisation official said on Wednesday.
"It occurred inside Aswan in an urban area, and we don't have much details at this point in time," said Hassan al-Bushra, regional adviser for communicable disease surveillance for the World Health Organisation (WHO).
State news agency MENA quoted a health ministry spokesman as saying the girl, Amira Abdel Latif Nayel, had been admitted to a hospital in Aswan, 450 km south of Cairo, on Tuesday suffering from fever and muscle pains.
Tests had confirmed Nayel had the H5N1 virus, and she had been treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu and was stable, MENA quoted the spokesman as saying.
He added that her family were being kept under observation.
