An Egyptian health worker gives vaccinations to chickens at a house near Menoufia, 80 km (50 miles) north of Cairo January 1, 2008. (Chinese media/Reuters File Photo)
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CAIRO, March 4 (Chinese media) -- An Egyptian boy at the age
of two years and eight months has contracted bird flu virus, bringing the number
of human case of the avian influenza to 57 in the country, a Health Ministry
spokesman said Wednesday.
The boy, Abdullah Nagy Amran, comes from the northern
Egyptian governorate of Alexandria, some 220 km northwest of Cairo, the state
MENA news agency quoted the spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine as saying.
The boy showed symptoms after contacting with dead
birds on Wednesday, and he is in a stable condition after being admitted to a
hospital and given the antiviral drug Tamiflu, said Shahine.
This is the second human case of bird flu less than a
week in Egypt, where millions of families raise poultry as a source of food and
income.
On Sunday, Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed that
two-year-old boy Youssef Abdel-Azim from Fayoum governorate, some 85 km south of
Cairo, was infected with bird flu virus.
Egypt is the most affected country by the deadly
avian influenza outside Asia. It reported its first H5N1 virus in dead poultry
in February 2006 and the first human case in March of the same year.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO),
some 409 people in 15 countries and regions have contracted the virus and 256 of
them died of the disease as of March 2.
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