Another H5N1 Confirmed Child in Minya Egypt
Recombinomics Commentary
April 6, 2007
The Ministry of Health on Thursday evening from injury and thirty three human bird flu cases in Egypt, namely the status of the girl child Alvoalh Bani Mazar in Minya governorate.
Dr. Rahman Shahin, spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population that the third session of the child Fatima Farouk Ahmed Abdel Gawad, a two-year-old entered the hospital pathogenesis of Beni Mazar Wednesday suffering from a high temperature following Mkhalttha of birds suspected of being infected with bird flu disease, condition stable.
He added that they had been given the necessary treatment of the ailing property Altamiflo and is currently working epidemiological investigation of all family members - according to the Middle East News Agency.
The above translation describes another confirmed child in the Minya goverorate. This is the second recent confirmed case in Menia. The first case (5M) was mild and the H5N1 from the child had the Mongolian HA cleavage site, which was also in the three recent patients from Aswan (10F, 2M, 3F). All of the earlier cases have been mild, and the children have been discharged. Most had cold symptoms with a high fever.
The clustering of these mild cases is cause for concern. Because these patients had mild symptoms and recovered quickly, the number of similar unreported cases may be high. Fevers in adults may be lower and many may self medicate or recover without treatment or testing.
Antibody testing of contacts of the initial cases, which were first reported in the middle of March, would be useful.
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