Two Suspect H5N1 Fayoum Patients Transferred to Cairo
Recombinomics Commentary 12:51
March 12, 2008
Said Dr. Atta Hisham Youssef, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health brown, it has been transferred Mohamed spring Abdulhamid «27 years» from the village dams of the centre worries to a hospital in Sadr Adviser Bakry Cairo to prove his two avian influenza.
In Fayoum, transmitted Dr. Hussein Sophie Abutaleb, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Mr. Muhammad Huda «33 years» homemaker, from the village of Hobbies to a hospital after a physical one hour of entering the hospital salt Fayoum.
The above translation describes two suspect H5N1 patients who were hospitalized in Fayoum and then transferred to Cairo. Although the translations lack detail, suspect H5N1 patients transferred to Cairo frequently are confirmed.
These two patients followed recent confirmation of two other patients from Fayoum. Both had pneumonia. One (25F) has died, while another (8M) is in stable condition.
The clustering of cases in Fayoum remains a cause for concern. More detail on the suspect cases, and release of sequence data from the confirmed patients at the end of 2007, as well as the confirmed patients this year, would be useful.
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