Thanks to Mike Coston who passed along a heads-up about this story. Via Al-Masry Al-Youm: Egypt announces 36th bird flu death. Excerpt:
Egypt announced Thursday its 36th death linked to the H5N1 virus, commonly referred to as avian or bird flu.
The 33-year-old victim, a woman from Qalyubiya, was hospitalized in Cairo Wednesday after experiencing a high fever and difficulty breathing. The Ministry of Health suspects she contracted the virus through contact with infected poultry.
The World Health Organization says Egypt ranks third globally in H5N1 documented cases. The majority of the cases in Egypt have come as the result of close contact with infected domestic poultry.
Approximately five million Egyptian families depend on poultry as an important source of food and income.The report goes on to say that 16,000 persons have contracted bird flu and over 265 have died of it. That's first a gross error and second an understatement. WHO's latest tally, publish August 12, shows 504 confirmed human H5N1 cases and 299 deaths. This makes 505 and 300.
