Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09CAIRO226
2009-02-09 10:05:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:
EGYPT'S 55th BIRD FLU VICTIM, ANOTHER CHILD
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UNCLAS CAIRO 000226
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 55th BIRD FLU VICTIM, ANOTHER CHILD
Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly.
(SBU) On February 8, 2009, Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population
(MOHP) announced the country's 55th human avian influenza (AI)
victim: a 1 and 1/2 year old boy from the Minya Governorate's
Maghagha district. The boy, the fifth AI victim in Minya since the
H5N1 virus surfaced in Egypt three years ago, got sick February 6,
was hospitalized February 7, received Tamiflu the same day, and is
in good condition. He is the 24th human AI victim in Egypt under
age tenQ all have survived. Egypt, with four confirmed human AI
cases so far this year, trails only China, with seven.
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