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While I was away from my desk this morning Crof over at Crofsblog picked up on a new World Health Organization announcement of H5N1 in Egypt (see WHO: Two more Egyptian H5N1 cases, 1 death).
Today’s WHO announcement appears to catch up with the outstanding cases on the Egyptian MOH website (as of Apr. 17th).
As you can see, since testing began in 2006, more than 12,000 suspected cases have been isolated and tested, but on 143 have tested positive.
Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 51
21 April 2011 - On 16 April 2011, the Ministry of Health of Egypt notified WHO of two new cases of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus.
The first case was a 29 years-old male from Fayoum Governorate Wadi Elrian area who developed symptoms on 1 April , was hospitalized on 4 April and died on 7 April.
The second case was a one -and-a -half year-old male child from Fayoum Governorate, Sennores District who developed symptoms on 9 April and was hospitalized on 11 April. He is under treatment and is in stable condition.
All the cases received oseltamivir treatment at the time of hospitalization.
Investigations into the source of infection indicate that both the cases had exposure to sick and/or dead poultry suspected to have avian influenza. There is no epidemiological link identified between these two cases.
The cases were confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories, a National Influenza Center of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network.
Of the 143 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 47 have been fatal .
