The Health Ministry announced a rise in the number of deaths from bird flu to 11 cases in one year, after a 30-year-old woman died in the Abbaseya Chest Hospital.
It also said that the number of infections rose to 29 cases after a 6-year-old girl in Giza and a 45-year-old man in Menoufiya were reported ill.
Head of the Preventive Medicine Department Dr. Amr Kandil said that it was too late to save the woman, who also came from Menoufiya, because she was in a critical condition.
The girl, who suffers from a high temperature, was transferred to the Abbasiya Fever Hospital also in a critical condition, while the man was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Shebin Fever Hospital and connected to a respirator.
The ministry also said that 12 of the 29 patients were cured, while six are still under treatment.
In a related development, five cases were isolated in Damietta, including an 8-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, on suspicion of bird flu.
Dr. Gamal al-Deeb, director of the Damietta Fever Hospital, said that the situation is stable in Damietta, and that all the cases that were suspected were negative.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
