AFP/File – Chickens at a farm near Jamasa city, north of Cairo. A 38-year-old woman has been hospitalised after …
GENEVA, March 23, 2009 (AFP) – A 38-year-old woman has been hospitalised after contracting bird flu in Egypt, where some 23 people have been killed by the disease since 2006, the World Health Organization said Monday.
"The Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt has reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza," said the WHO in a statement on its website.
The victim from the Elfath district in central Egypt showed symptoms of fever and headache on March 14, and was admitted to hospital on the same day.
"Infection with H5N1 avian influenza was confirmed on March 18 by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory," the WHO said.
She has been given treatment and was "in a stable condition," added the WHO.
"Investigations into the source of her infection indicate a history of close contact with dead and sick poultry prior to becoming ill," said the WHO.
Some 59 people have contracted the disease in Egypt since it was first detected there three years ago, according to the WHO.
The H5N1 flu virus has killed 250 people worldwide since 2003, with most lives claimed in southeast Asia.
The virus typically spreads from birds to humans via direct contact, but experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans, with the potential to kill millions in a pandemic.
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