Sixth bird flu death in Egypt

19 May 2006

An elderly woman died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Egypt, marking the country’s sixth fatal case of the virus in humans, a World Health Organisation official said. “We have some basic information that she was a 75-year-old woman from Al-Minya” in southern Egypt, WHO regional health regulation officer John Jabbour told AFP. Full Story

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