Posted on 05/20/2009 4:39:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two Egyptian boys have contracted the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, bringing the total number of cases in the most populous Arab country to 74, state news agency MENA said on Wednesday.
Egypt, hit harder by bird flu than any other country outside Asia, has seen a surge in cases in recent weeks with 14 new human infections and four deaths reported since April 1 -- more than the country saw in all of 2008.
The children -- a 4-year-old boy from Daqahlia in the Nile Delta and a 3-year-old boy from Sohag in the south -- were admitted to hospital with high fever and were in a stable condition after being treated with Tamiflu, MENA said.
It quoted a health ministry spokesman as saying that both boys had been in contact with birds suspected of being infected with the disease.
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If bird flu meets swine flu will we have “when pigs can fly” flu?
Ain’t 0bozo headed to Egypt next month?
I think we are about to see manswinebird flu. It could get rather interesting, and scary, this fall.
Thanks, RR.
H5N1 ping.
Let's hope this doesn't meet up with H1N1 and swap genetic material...
Cheers!
Ooooops!! Now Egypt will not have a wholesale slaughter of birds. Before this is over, everything creeping, crawling and flying in Egypt will be exterminated.
ping...(Thanks, LucyT!)
Only 13 percent of the 247 people hospitalized because of the new flu are over 50 years old, Dr. Jernigan in Mexico said. Many have other medical conditions like pregnancy, asthma, heart disease, lung disease or obesity. In a typical flu season, more than 90 percent of those hospitalized are older than 50.
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