03.05.2006

A 27-year-old Egyptian woman is being treated in hospital for avian influenza, the country's 13th human infection with the avian influenza virus, a spokesman from the health ministry said on Tuesday (02/05).
The latest victim caught the disease after coming into contact with poultry kept in houses in her family's home town in Manoufiya province, outside of Cairo.
Tests conducted by both the national public health laboratory and the Cairo-based US Naval Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3) produced positive results.
The woman was admitted to a Cairo-based hospital on Monday due to fever, severe coughing and dyspnea.