Suspect H5N1 Gharbiya Cluster
Recombinomics Commentary
December 7, 2007
Detained Health Administration Bank student at the primary and infant brother Child Hospital pathogenesis Mahala on suspicion of the safety of Avian.
The newspaper said the delegation Spiegel Friday quoting Dr. Sharif Hammouda Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health schoolgirl called Fathia Mohammed Abdabasit "10 years" student at the primary and evaluated village onions surprise of the Center for the place.
The girl was at the temperature was detained on suspicion of the safety of Avian also felt the child baby brother Ahmed 11 months the same symptoms had been seizure cases, and sent samples of Dmanma factor of the central Ministry of Health to ensure that the disease-free from avian influenza.
The above translation describes siblings in Gharbiya who are hospitalized and being tested for H5N1. This suspect cluster is almost exactly one year after a cluster was confirmed in Gharbiya. That cluster was the largest to date in Egypt and the H5N1 was Tamiflu resistance (NA N296S) prior to treatment, and had two changes in or near the receptor binding domain V223I and M230I.
More information of tests of these siblings would be useful.
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