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CAIRO (AFP) – An Egyptian boy has died of bird flu, the 24th reported death from the disease since it broke out in the country in 2006, state media reported on Tuesday.
The six-year-old from the outskirts of Cairo died of respiratory failure, the state-run MENA news agency quoted a health ministry official as saying. He had been in hospital since last month.
It was the first death from the disease this year, the official said, although four new cases have been reported over the past week.
The fourth was a four-year-old boy in the southern province of Sohag, the health ministry announced on Tuesday.
On Monday, the ministry said that an 18-month-old girl had contracted the virus, and last week it said that two women were in critical condition after being infected.
Sixty-seven Egyptians have contracted the potentially fatal disease since its outbreak.
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