/13/2009 11:57:00 PM
CAIRO - Editor Masrawy - confirmed on Wednesday No. 70 of infection with avian influenza for children aged 4 years from the eastern province of Kafr Saqr and his condition was good and stable.

This was stated by Dr. Amr Kandil and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Affairs, prevention, said the boy admitted to the Hospital of Zagazig, with a high temperature, showing symptoms of Alatvlonza, decided to convert it to a hospital in the Tamiflu drug, which analysis has shown a result of the disease usually infected domestic birds, and treated with Tamiflu.

Despite the strain, "said the 5 H 1" of the bird flu virus rarely affects humans express experts fear it could mutate into a virus that can infect easily from person to person, sparking a pandemic could cause the deaths of millions of people.
Most people living in Egypt had been in contact with infected domestic birds in a country where the adoption of some five million families on the poultry kept at home as an important source of food and income.

The World Health Organization said it feared that some of the Egyptians may have avian influenza virus without showing any symptoms, which may give the virus a greater chance of turning into a strain easily spread among humans.