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For the 12th time this year, and for 8th time since March the 1st, Egypt is reporting another human H5N1 infection. This time of a 6 year-old boy in serious condition from north of Cairo.
Already, in the first 90 days of 2009, Egypt has seen 50% more confirmed cases of H5N1 than they did in all of 2008.
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Egyptian boy contracts bird flu
CAIRO (AFP) – A six-year-old boy has contracted bird flu, the 63rd recorded case since the first outbreak of the disease in Egypt in 2006 and the third in a week, the health ministry announced on Sunday.
Ali Mahmud Ali from Shubra al-Khaimah, north of Cairo, was hospitalised on March 28 in the Egyptian capital, ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahin said, as cited by state news agency MENA.
The diagnosis came after about a week, he said.
The child is in a serious condition and is being treated with frontline anti-flu drug Tamiflu, Shahin added.
Hassan Gamil Hassan, 21 months old, was hospitalised on Wednesday in the northern province of Beheira with a high fever, while a two-year-old was taken to hospital in Beheira last Monday.
