# 4380
Commonground, posting both on her Pandemic Information News website and on FluTrackers, has picked up media reports of yet another H5N1 case in Egypt.
This time of a 14 month-old reportedly in stable condition at the Banha Fever Hospital.
This makes the 13th H5N1 case out of Egypt since the beginning of the year. You’ll find a thread on FluTrackers with several other translated reports of this case.
Aged 14 months and his condition is stable
Last Update: 24/02/2010 18:29 timing of Cairo
Ministry of Health announced Wednesday in the Egyptian case was found 103 bird flu for a child one year old and two months of milk Qalubia.
The history of the illness of the situation that the onset of symptoms was on February 22 and entered the Banha Fever Hospital in the next day suffering from a high temperature and cough, runny nose and shortness of breath, and after being exposed to birds suspected of being infected with bird flu.
Have been given Tamiflu, the child immediately in a stable condition.
It is said that families in rural areas continue to retain the custom of raising poultry at home, leading to mixing for children and women, the Government is making strenuous efforts to contain the deadly virus and limit its spread, and calls through the media to avoid mixing with any birds, but a final After the adoption of precautionary measures.
Meanwhile, in Menoufia, residents are `panicked’ over the sudden deaths of chickens, according to this report (also posted by Commonground) on FluTrackers.
Panic among people fearing an outbreak of avian influenza Menoufia
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 - 20:54
Seen some of the villages and the villages of central Quesna Menouf Menofia, the case of mass deaths among domestic birds in the past three days, began the emergence of symptoms peculiar to the presence of chicken blue color known as the chicken and turn to black, followed by the death of birds.Serious threat is the people's dumping dead chickens in large quantities in the vicinity of their homes, and on the edge of canals, putting children at risk of bird flu.
Dr. Ahmed Fouad, General Manager of Veterinary Medicine Menoufia, it was a medical team to go to the villages which have had cases mortality, to ensure the quality of the disease, whether it is bird flu or not, and in if you are sure will be culling all domestic birds in houses and cleared and then bury the dead them in safe places Sahara, appealing to citizens of the need for the immediate reporting of mortality until they are disposed so as not to return again after the disease have been eliminated.
