# 5201
Via Twall on FluTrackers, we get this announcement from the Egyptian Ministry of Public Health website:
The death of the 40 bird flu in Egypt
Monday, January 03, 2011
Advertise Acanutorabd Rahman Shahin, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health for the death case of bird flu virus to a man at the age of 40 years from the province of Dakahlia.
Shaheen explained that bringing the total number of cases of the disease in Egypt, 119 cases and 40 deaths since the onset of the disease in Egypt in 2006, pointing out that this is the first death the disease in 2011.
Details, such as the date of onset, length of illness, or route of infection are not provided.
This is the sixth human H5N1 infection reported by Egyptian Officials in the past 3 weeks.
