# 4907
The indefatigable Dutchy, posting on FluTrackers, has picked up on a report out of Egypt of a 55 year-old who is hospitalized with suspected H5N1.
Egypt has reported 22 confirmed infections this year, with 9 fatalities.
Since there’s no laboratory confirmation in this Masrawy news story, we’ll have to await further word to know if this is Egypt’s 23rd case of 2010.
Dutchy has set up a FluTrackers thread for this report, and you can check for updates at this link.
Machine translated
Detention of suspected case of bird flu, a hospital Tanta
9/15/2010
Seized a hospital in Tanta new case of a person in the sixth decade of life on suspicion of being infected with bird flu symptoms after an outbreak similar to the symptoms of the disease.
The hospital had detained a person named "Comm. P 55 years" of the village share of Parma Center Tanta on suspicion of being infected with bird flu Blood samples were taken from him and the melancholy hours, and sent to the central laboratories of the Ministry of Health with the illness or not and given the drug Tamiflu and the isolation of places allocated to it .
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