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AFP is relaying a report that a 33 year-old woman from Northern Egypt is in critical condition, and on a respirator, suffering from the H5N1 bird flu virus.
There is not a lot of detail available yet.
This makes the 13th case thus far in 2009, and in contrast to most of the other cases we’ve seen this year this one is in an adult, and is producing very serious symptoms.
Earlier this week the WHO (World Health Organization) and the FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization) both announced they would be sending investigators to Egypt to assist in the investigation of the recent upsurge in human infections.
Egypt woman critically ill with bird flu
CAIRO (AFP) – A 33-year-old woman has contracted bird flu, the 64th recorded case since the first outbreak of the disease in Egypt in 2006, the health ministry announced on Wednesday.
The woman from the Kafr el-Sheikh province of northern Egypt is in critical condition and on an artificial respirator, state-run news agency MENA quoted a health ministry official as saying.
She first showed symptoms of the flu more than a week ago after being exposed to dead fowl thought to have been carrying the disease, the official said.
