Thursday, December 22, 2011

Egypt: Human 2 Human Transmission? Factual Commentary #H5N1 #Birdflu

An article I posted tonight, which can be located here, sounded like two of our recently confirmed WHO victims of H5N1 were related in some way:

Mr. Hamdi, where he died, Mr. Rizk "29 year resident of the village inns Center Monia victory" and confirmed the result of laboratory tests are central to the Ministry of Health bird flu illness...
An official source that the sister domicile claims and longing Mr. Hamdi suffered heavy bleeding during her pregnancy was taken to hospital in Damietta, also died there on December 3 and confirmed the Ministry of Health that the cause of death was positive for bird flu.
From our WHO Update, one of which is located here, published on 12/21, says:

The case is a 29-year-old male from Dakahlia Governorate. He developed symptoms on 8 December 2011 and was admitted to hospital on 15 December 2011, where he received oseltamivir treatment. He was in critical condition and died on 19 December 2011.

On December 15th, we have a WHO Update, which details a pregnant woman who died on December 3rd. What makes it more ominous is the fact that her daughter, also contracted H5N1 and is currently under care:

The two cases are a mother and her young child from Dakahlia Governorate. Both developed symptoms on 26 November 2011.‬‪The mother was admitted to a Hospital on 1 December 2011 and received oseltamivir on admission. The child was hospitalised on 2 December 2011 and received oseltamivir on admission. The mother was 24 weeks pregnant. She died on 3 December 2011. The child is in stable condition.‬‪
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011_12_15/en/index.html


The above 2 WHO Updates, #58 and #59, coupled with the above translated articles, tells this news tracker that we have a cluster consisting of a Woman (pregnant, died), her daughter (currently under care) and a 29 yo Male (died) - all being confirmed H5N1 positive.

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