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H5N1 kills eighth Egyptian
24/12/2006 20:17 - (SA)
Cairo - An Egyptian woman died of bird flu
on Sunday, only hours after tests confirmed she had been
suffering from the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, a World Health
Organisation official said.
Hassan el-Bushra, regional adviser for communicable diseases
surveillance at the WHO, said the 30-year-old woman had been in
hospital since mid-December, but doctors had not immediately
suspected bird flu as she had denied having had contact with
poultry.
Her death brings the number of total human deaths from H5N1
in Egypt to eight.
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