Egypt on Monday confirmed a new human case of bird flu, bringing the number of people infected by the avian influenza to 52 in the populous country, Xinhua quoted MENA news agency as reporting. Asmaa Mohamed, 21-month-old, has been admitted to hospital for treatments suffering from high temperature and vomiting, assistant Health Minister Nasr el-Sayed was quoted as saying. The baby girl is from Kerdasa, 6th of October governorate, said the official, adding she was infected with the virus after being in contact with infected birds. In last December, a 16-year-old Egyptian girl in the southern Egyptian governorate of Asyut died of bird flu, bringing the death toll of the human cases of bird flu in the populous country to 23. Egypt reported its first H5N1 virus in dead poultry in February2006 and the first human case in March of the same year.
