Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08CAIRO844
2008-04-23 15:56:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:
GRIM BIRD FLU MILESTONE: EGYPT'S 50TH CASE
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UNCLAS CAIRO 000844
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/ELA (NAFZIGER)
STATE ALSO FOR AIAG (WINN)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU TBIO ECON PGOV EG
SUBJECT: GRIM BIRD FLU MILESTONE: EGYPT'S 50TH CASE
REF: A. A. CAIRO 784
B. B. CAIRO 413
Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly.
UNCLAS CAIRO 000844
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/ELA (NAFZIGER)
STATE ALSO FOR AIAG (WINN)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU TBIO ECON PGOV EG
SUBJECT: GRIM BIRD FLU MILESTONE: EGYPT'S 50TH CASE
REF: A. A. CAIRO 784
¶B. B. CAIRO 413
Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly.
¶1. (SBU) On April 16, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and
Population (MOHP) confirmed its seventh human avian influenza
(AI) case this year: a 2-year-old boy from the Sharqia
Governorate north of Cairo. This marks Egypt's 50th
confirmed AI case overall, and the third in the month of
April. The child was hospitalized the day after he fell ill.
The treating physicians administered Tamiflu to him
immediately, and he, unlike the last two AI victims, is
expected to recover (ref A).
¶2. (SBU) A notable spike in AI cases occurred earlier this
year when the virus struck four Egyptians over a course of
ten days in late February and early March (refs A and B).
SCOBEY