# 1431
Sad news to report.
Of the three bird flu patients detected over the past week in Egypt, two have now died. The mortality rate, which had dropped dramatically during the spring and summer in Egypt, once more appears on the rise.
Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, 2nd in week
Sun 30 Dec 2007, 17:50 GMT
CAIRO, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Sunday, the second fatality among humans in Egypt in less than one week, the Health Ministry said.
Fatma Fathi Mohamed died in hospital in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, three days after she was admitted to a smaller local hospital with a high temperature and difficulty breathing, it said in a statement carried by the state news agency MENA.
Her death was the 17th in Egypt since the virus was first detected in February 2006. (Writing by Jonathan Wright; editing by Keith Weir)
