Source: Xinhua

04-22-2009 10:11

Special Report:   Tech Max

CAIRO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Health Ministry said Tuesday that a six-year-old boy died after he was infected with bird flu virus, bringing the human cases of the fatal avian influenza to 67 and the number of deaths to 24 in the populous country.

Egypt is the most affected country by the deadly avian influenza outside Asia.(File photo)

The boy, Ali Mahmoud Ali, who comes from northern Egyptian governorate of Qalyubiya, some 40 km north of Cairo, was admitted to hospital on March 28, and died on Tuesday, Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine confirmed.

Meanwhile, another official from the Health Ministry said that another four-year-old boy, Ahmed Ramadan Kamal Adean, from Sohag in south of Cairo, contracted the virus.

The boy showed symptoms of infection on Saturday after contacting with infected birds, and then he was admitted to hospital on the same day, given the antiviral vaccine Tamiflu and is in a stable condition, he added.

Egypt is the most affected country by the deadly avian influenza outside Asia. It reported its first H5N1 virus in dead poultry in February 2006 and the first human case in March of the same year.

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