Egyptian woman tests positive for bird flu

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Plagues, Pestilences and Diseases

Egyptian woman tests positive for bird flu*

From correspondents in Cairo

January 18, 2007 01:18am
Article from: Reuters

A 27-year-old Egyptian woman tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird
flu virus, a World Health Organisation official said.

The virus has claimed 10 lives in Egypt while eight other positive cases
recovered since it first surfaced in Egyptian poultry in February.

“Unfortunately, yes there is a new case,” said Hassan el-Bushra,
regional adviser for communicable diseases surveillance for the World
Health Organisation.

He said tests carried out by Egyptian authorities were positive for the
H5N1 virus and he was awaiting the results of a second set of tests.

The official Middle East News Agency (MENA) identified the woman as
Warda Eid Ahmed from the province of Beni Suef south of the capital Cairo.

The agency quoted an Egyptian Health Ministry official as saying she has
been hospitalised since January 13 with a serious pulmonary inflammation.