H5N1 Hospitalized Health Care Worker in Qalyubiyah Egypt
Recombinomics Commentary 19:18
January 1, 2008
In Qalyubiyah detained Hospital pathogenesis Banha Safa Abdel Mohammed, a nurse at the health unit necessary for the village's center Shebin Spans on suspicion of being infected because they are raising birds at home, and it appeared the symptoms of the disease.
The above translation describes the hospitalization of a suspected H5N1 infected health care worker in Qalyubiyah. Although she raises birds at home, the number of confirmed and suspect H5N1 infected patients continues to rise (see satellite map). In addition to the five confirmed cases, there are twenty-one suspect cases, including one fatality in Cairo, a family of four in Port Said, and a father and daughter in Menoufia.
This dramatic increase in confirmed and suspect cases is alarming. In the past week, four of the five suspect cases have died, as has one of the suspect cases.
More detail on the suspect cases would be useful.
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