# 4323
Late yesterday Commonground of Pandemic Information News posted an Egyptian News report on FluTrackers that gives details on what they are calling Egypt’s 96th H5N1 case.
The last media report I saw was of their 94th case (see Egyptian Media Reports 93rd & 94th Bird Flu Cases) just over a week ago. Assuming the case count is correct in the article below, we apparently missed one in the past couple of days.
If confirmed, this would make the 7th case reported in 2010, getting Egypt off to a fast start in the new year. Last year, Egypt reported a total of 39 cases (4 deaths). The year before, just 8 cases (4 fatalities).
This from youm7.com and most of it appears straight forward, except for the mention of `Tamiflu-resistant’ in the last paragraph.
The 29-year-old woman from Sadat Center Monofiya ..
"Health" detected 96 bird flu infection
2010 - 20:20 Thursday, February 4th, 2010 - 20:20
Minister of Health
Abdul Salam wrote Princess
The Ministry of Health this evening, Thursday, discovered the case of the 96 human cases of bird flu, a woman, aged 29 years of Sadat Center Menoufiya Governorate.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Health, The symptoms of avian influenza began to appear on the case Jan. 27, after 7 days on this date entered the hospital issued Menouf has been suffering from double pneumonia, high fever, difficulty in breathing after exposure to birds suspected of being infected with bird flu.
The statement added that the situation got a Tamiflu-resistant to disease once they enter the hospital issued Menouf, but that the continuation of their health in a critical situation prompted the hospital was converted to the Abbasid.
Machine translations into English, whether from Arabic, Chinese, or any other language, can sometimes be difficult to decipher. Nuances and details don’t always survive the translation process.
Which is why I use them only cautiously, accepting the fact that some of the details may be `muddy’ or inaccurate. Still, they have been a valuable tool as well watch disease activity around the world.
We are fortunate, therefore, to have Twall - a moderator at FluTrackers - who lives in Egypt, is fluent in Arabic, and who offers this clarification:
this group of words (التاميفلو المقاوم للمرض ) really means that Tamiflu is used to treat the diseases of bird flu.
it also reads like they were forced to transfer the person because of how sick they were.
This is a good example of the `value added’ by the newshounds and analysts who have been doing this sort of work for years on the flu forums. Although there are several flu forums doing this sort of work, the two I tend to frequent are the Flu Wiki and FluTrackers.
For more on how these newshounds find, translate, and analyze reports you might be interested in Newshounds: They Cover The Pandemic Front.
