A secondary school student died of bird flu in the Minya governorate on Sunday, thus raising the death toll to seven in Egypt this year.
The head of the Minya Security Directorate, Osama Metwally, received a notification from Assiut Fever Hospital announcing the death from bird flu of Abdallah Galal, a 16-year-old high school student who resided in the village of Saft al-Khemar.
Galal is the sixth bird flu-related death recorded in Minya.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
