# 1413
Barely 24 hours after reporting the death of 25-year-old Ola Younis, Egypt is now reporting two additional cases. This after nearly 6 months without a human case.
The number of outbreaks among poultry in Egypt has not gotten much news coverage, but the OIE reporting indicates that the H5N1 virus is endemic in that region.
Two Egyptians test positive for bird flu - ministry
Thu 27 Dec 2007, 17:50 GMT
By Aziz El-Kaissouni
CAIRO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Two Egyptians have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a day after an Egyptian woman died of the disease, Egypt's health ministry said on Thursday.
"There are two cases today, one in Damietta and one in Menoufia... Today lab results confirmed that they are infected with bird flu," Amr Kandeel, head of communicable disease control at the health ministry, told Reuters.
The two new cases, both of whom are currently receiving treatment in hospital, bring the total number of human bird flu cases in Egypt to 41, Kandeel added.
State news agency MENA said the Menoufia case was 22-year-old Nora Aboul Abbas Mohamed, but gave no details for the second case.
On Wednesday, 25-year-old Ola Younis died of bird flu in Beni Suef province, south of Cairo, on the same day she was diagnosed as being infected with the highly pathogenic virus.
She was the 16th fatality from bird flu in Egypt.
