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CAIRO, April 23 (KUNA) -- A 34 year-old Egyptian woman died of the H5N1
bird flu virus on Thursday, bringing the number of such deaths to 24 and the
total of all cases in the country to 68, Egyptian health ministry spokesman
Abdul-Rahman Shaheen said.
The spokesman said in a statement that symptoms on the woman started on
April 21st where she was admitted to hospital after high temperature fever,
adding that the woman was handling dead birds in her neighborhood.
However, she was treated with the drug Tamiflu but remained in critical
condition until she died, the spokesman 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. (end)
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