Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09CAIRO211
2009-02-05 13:21:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:
EGYPT'S 54th BIRD FLU VICTIM, 1st FROM SUEZ
how-toVZCZCXRO3771 PP RUEHAST RUEHHM RUEHLN RUEHMA RUEHPB RUEHPOD RUEHTM RUEHTRO DE RUEHEG #0211 0361321 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 051321Z FEB 09 FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1557 INFO RUEHZN/ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHDC PRIORITY RUEHPH/CDC ATLANTA GA PRIORITY
UNCLAS CAIRO 000211
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR AIAG (AMBASSADOR LANGE AND DAVID WINN)
NEA/ELA FOR SCHALL
DEPT PASS TO AID (DENNIS CARROLL)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
SUBJECT: EGYPT'S 54th BIRD FLU VICTIM, 1st FROM SUEZ
REF: CAIRO 0173
Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly.
(SBU) On February 4, 2009, Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population
(MOHP) announced the country's 54th human avian influenza (AI)
victim: a two-year-old boy from the Ganian district in the Suez
Governorate. The boy, the first AI victim in Suez, fell sick
February 2, was hospitalized February 3, received Tamiflu the same
day, and is in good condition. MOHP's Central Laboratories and
NAMRU-3 have confirmed the boy was struck by the H5N1 virus. (SBU)
While Egypt's young children have been hit hard by AI -- the boy
from Suez is the 23rd victim here under age ten -- every one of them
has survived (reftel.)
Scobey