Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Serang bird flu the Child the Egyptian Resident

[This is from The Infection hospital Prof. Dr. Sulianti Saroso site, infeksi.com, out of Indonesia, regarding Egypt]

06/04/2009
A Egyptian male child who was six years old was attacked by the deadly bird flu virus, the sixth case in this month in the Arabian country have a population solidest, said the MENA News Agency. MENA identified the child as Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa, that came from the province Nile Delta Qalyubia. Penjangkitannya increased the number of cases was confirmed the virus avian influenza H5N1 became 63 in Egypt, that was attacked more serious compared with the other country outside Asia. The spokesperson the Ministry of the Health Egyptian Abdel Rahman Shahine said, Somaa began to show signs of the illness of two last week and was treated in the hospital a week afterwards, where he was given medicine antivirus tamiflu, said MENA. Somaa was in the critical condition and breathed with help of the respirator, added the news agency.

On Friday, Egypt reported that a baby was 21 months old teserang bird flu. Since 2003, the virus H5N1 infected at least 410 people in 15 countries and killed 254 people from them. The virus killed or forced elimination more than 300 million poultries in 61 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Approximately 23 Egyptian residents were killed resulting from terjangkit this virus, most after carrying out contact with the poultry piaraan that was attacked in the country, where around five million families begantung to the livestock animal as the important source of food and the income. Although H5N1 rarely infected the person, the experts revealed the concern that the virus would bermutasi became a form that was easy to be contagious from humankind to humankind, that possibly lighted the plague that could kill millions orang./kompas

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