Human bird flu cases in Egypt reaches 11
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.
Iman Mohammed Abdel Gawad died at Eshmon Hospital, where she had been admitted yesterday, health ministry spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin said.
