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After a six week hiatus, the H5N1 virus has reportedly infected another Egyptian - this time a four-year-old girl from Minya Province.
Egyptian girl tests positive for bird flu-MENA
Mon 25 Feb 2008, 22:52 GMT
CAIRO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A 4-year-old Egyptian girl tested positive for bird flu on Monday, the 44th confirmed human case in the Arab world's most populous country, state news agency MENA said.
Ministry of Health spokesman Abdel Rahman Shaheen said the girl had been treated with the antiviral drug tamiflu and had been transferred from Minya province to a hospital in Cairo, the agency said.
The girl is suffering from a high fever and is having trouble breathing because she has inflammation of one of her lungs.
Four Egyptian women died from bird flu in December. Their deaths broke a 5-month pause in human cases in Egypt and brought to 19 the number of Egyptians who have died of the H5N1 bird flu virus since it emerged in Egypt in early 2006.
