Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09CAIRO74
2009-01-15 11:55:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:
EGYPT'S CHILDREN CONTINUE TO SURVIVE BIRD FLU
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UNCLAS CAIRO 000074
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR AIAG (AMBASSADOR LANGE AND DAVID WINN),DEPT PASS TO AID
(DENNIS CARROLL)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
SUBJECT: EGYPT'S CHILDREN CONTINUE TO SURVIVE BIRD FLU
REF: 08 CAIRO 02445
Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly.
UNCLAS CAIRO 000074
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR AIAG (AMBASSADOR LANGE AND DAVID WINN),DEPT PASS TO AID
(DENNIS CARROLL)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
SUBJECT: EGYPT'S CHILDREN CONTINUE TO SURVIVE BIRD FLU
REF: 08 CAIRO 02445
Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly.
1. (SBU) Summary and comment: Egypt's Ministry of Health and
Population (MOHP) has announced Egypt's 52nd human avian influenza
(AI) case: a 21-month-old girl from Kerdasa in the Sixth of October
Governorate. The girl is in stable condition at Manshia Al Bakry
Hospital in Cairo. This case marks the continuation of a trend:
Egyptian children recover from AI at a remarkable rate. To date, for
example, there have been twenty-four confirmed pre-teen H5N1 cases
in Egypt. Twenty-three of them, including all twenty-one of those
under the age of ten, survived. Egypt's teenage and adult AI
victims, conversely, do not fare well -- 80% have died.
2. (SBU) Egypt's latest AI victim, the second here in less than a
month, was admitted to Imbaba Fever Hospital on January 10, 2009,
suffering from high temperature, vomiting and diarrhea. Her doctors
administered Tamiflu when they suspected she might be afflicted with
AI. They transferred her to Manshia Al Bakry on January 12th. Both
recent victims apparently had contact with dead poultry. The last
two cases mark the end of a seven month respite from AI (ref).
3. (SBU) Comment: While Egypt's children have done remarkably well
in surviving AI, older victims do not fare as well: twenty-two out
of twenty-eight older AI victims have died. Data elsewhere suggests
there may be some relationship between age and AI survival, but the
AI mortality rates in Egypt -- 0% for those under 10, 4% for all
pre-teens and 80% for the older AI victims -- seem to be extreme,
perhaps suggesting some unique, but as yet undetermined, local
influences.
Scobey
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR AIAG (AMBASSADOR LANGE AND DAVID WINN),DEPT PASS TO AID
(DENNIS CARROLL)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
SUBJECT: EGYPT'S CHILDREN CONTINUE TO SURVIVE BIRD FLU
REF: 08 CAIRO 02445
Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly.
1. (SBU) Summary and comment: Egypt's Ministry of Health and
Population (MOHP) has announced Egypt's 52nd human avian influenza
(AI) case: a 21-month-old girl from Kerdasa in the Sixth of October
Governorate. The girl is in stable condition at Manshia Al Bakry
Hospital in Cairo. This case marks the continuation of a trend:
Egyptian children recover from AI at a remarkable rate. To date, for
example, there have been twenty-four confirmed pre-teen H5N1 cases
in Egypt. Twenty-three of them, including all twenty-one of those
under the age of ten, survived. Egypt's teenage and adult AI
victims, conversely, do not fare well -- 80% have died.
2. (SBU) Egypt's latest AI victim, the second here in less than a
month, was admitted to Imbaba Fever Hospital on January 10, 2009,
suffering from high temperature, vomiting and diarrhea. Her doctors
administered Tamiflu when they suspected she might be afflicted with
AI. They transferred her to Manshia Al Bakry on January 12th. Both
recent victims apparently had contact with dead poultry. The last
two cases mark the end of a seven month respite from AI (ref).
3. (SBU) Comment: While Egypt's children have done remarkably well
in surviving AI, older victims do not fare as well: twenty-two out
of twenty-eight older AI victims have died. Data elsewhere suggests
there may be some relationship between age and AI survival, but the
AI mortality rates in Egypt -- 0% for those under 10, 4% for all
pre-teens and 80% for the older AI victims -- seem to be extreme,
perhaps suggesting some unique, but as yet undetermined, local
influences.
Scobey