CAIRO: A four-year-old girl on Monday died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, bringing to 27 the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt, the health ministry said.
Nada Al-Ahmed Reda Younes, four, from the Nile Delta town of Meet Ghamr died after contracting the disease, ministry spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin told the official MENA news agency.
The girl started showing symptoms on May 9 but was only taken to hospital on Sunday, Shahin said.
She tested positive for the disease on Monday and died the same day.
Her case brings to 72 the number of people infected with avian influenza in Egypt. She is the 27th person to die from disease since it was first identified in the country in 2006.
Most of the victims in Egypt have been young children or women, who are generally in charge of looking after poultry in rural areas. -AFP
