# 3214
A report with almost no details, although I expect we’ll hear more in the coming hours and days. A four-year-old girl from the Nile Delta province of Daqahlia has died from the H5N1 bird flu virus.
This makes the 21st case of 2009, and the 4th fatality out of Egypt. Other countries, particularly Indonesia, may be seeing an equally active year but are not reporting cases.
This alert from Reuters.
Egyptian girl dies of bird flu virus – agency
18 May 2009 12:04:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
CAIRO, May 18 (Reuters) - A 4-year-old Egyptian girl has died after contracting the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, Egypt's state news agency MENA said on Monday.
The girl, from the Nile Delta province of Daqahlia, brings the number of human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 72, MENA said. Of those, 27 have died. (Writing by Cynthia Johnston)
