Young people were the latest to fall victim to the bird flu in Egypt, which announced today that a 16-year-old girl had died of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus and an eight-year-old boy had tested positive.

EGYPT reported its second human case of avian flu yesterday while Israel continued its precautionary culling of hundreds of thousands of birds.

Egypt reported its second human case of avian flu today while Israel continued its precautionary culling of hundreds of thousands of birds.

Initial tests have shown that a woman who died this week had bird flu, making her probably the first human death from the disease in Egypt, a spokesman for the World Health Organisation said today.