5/30/2009 10:20:00 PM
CAIRO, May 30 (KUNA) — The Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed on Saturday the 77th infection case with H5N1 virus.
A female baby, aged one year and two months, contracted the highly pathogenic virus because she got in contact with domestic birds in a village located in Daqahliya, north Cairo, the ministry’s spokesman Dr. Abdulrahman Shahin said in a press briefing.
The baby was hospitalized five days ago, suffering from bird flu-like symptoms including high temperature, running nose, and respiratory disorder.
She was diagnosed as H5N1 positive so she has been treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu, Dr. Shahin revealed.
The victim is being relocated to Manshiyat Al-Bakri Hospital, Cairo, for further medication, he added.
The case pushed to 77 Egypt’s national tally of the fatal disease with the death toll amounting to 27 since the outbreak of the highly contagious virus in February, 2006.
The National Higher Commission against Bird Flu has adopted a new preventive methodology to control the spread of the H5N1, a subtype of the influenza A virus commonly-known as bird flu which can cause illness in humans. The methodology involves the medical and municipal authorities as well as the mass media. (end) bna.gb KUNA 302220 May 09NNNN
There is something strange going on in Egypt , There has been this year 2009 so far 17 babies, 4 years and Under with H5N1 bird flu AND most of them are 2 years old. sounds like population control OR Egypt parents are NOT responsible AT ALL when it comes to there children, Where are these parents when there children are out playing with birds that can scratch and peck at them, children that can barely walk let alone go out side and play around birds unattended. The Egypt Government needs to have those children that have survived taken away from those parents that is not capable of watching there babies and let the towns know if they leave there babies outside unattended, they too! will lose there children.
# 52 – 2 years, female, January 9, 2009, Kerdasa district
# 53 – 2 years, female, January 23, 2009, Manofia Governorate, Shebin Elkom
# 54 – 2 years, male, February 2, 2009, Suez governorate, 120 km east of Cairo
# 55 – 2 years, male, February 7, 2009, village of Aljaddamy,
# 56 – 2 years, male, February 25, 2009, Yousef el seddik
# 57 – 2 years, male, March 1, 2009, Ameriya,
# 58 – 1.5 years, female, March 6, 2009, village of metropolitan Mnov Menofia
# 59 – 38 years, female, March 14, 2009, village of Al Fatah Almasrp
# 60 – 2.5 years, female, March 23, 2009, Nagaa’ Abou Shouk village, Dandara,
# 61 – 2 years, male, March 27, 2009, from Kom Hamada
# 62 – 2 years, male,March 31, 2009, from Kom Hamada (cousin of # 61)
# 63 – 6 years, male, March 22, 2009, from Shubra El Khema District, Al Qalyubiyah Death
# 64 – 33 years, female, April 7, 2009, Kellin district, Kafr el-Sheik province. Death
# 65 – 25 years, female, April 6, 2009, Al-Marg area, Cairo Death
# 66 – 18 mo., female, April 15, 2009, Chaabas Amir Kulain Village, Kellin district, Kafr el-Sheik province
# 67 – 4 years, male, April 18, 2009, Akhmem, Sohag
# 68 – 34 years, female, April 21, 2009, Tanta, Al Gharbiyah
# 69 – 5 years, female,May 9, 2009, Sohag
# 70 – 4 years, male, May 10th, 2009, Kafr Sagr, Sharqia (East Province)
# 71 – 3 years, male,May 12th, 2009, Mahalla, Gharbia
# 72 – 4 years, female, May 9, 2009, Meet Ghamr, Daqahlia Death
# 73 – 4 years, male, May 18, 2009 , Dakahliya, Sohag
# 74 – 3 years, male, May 17, 2009 – Sohag
# 75 – ?
# 76 – ?
# 77 – 14 mo. female CAIRO, May 30, 2009 Dakahliya