Another Bird Flu Death In Egypt

She was not taken to hospital until a week after the first symptoms appeared...

At Ukmedix News we are particularly concerned with flu outbreaks in Egypt because this country is the nearest to the European Union that has actually had a few human cases of bird flu. While the news that someone has got the bird flu in Indonesia is serious, from a European perspective a case of H5N1 bird flu in Egypt is even more serious.

Recently we picked up on the news that a girl of ten years old living in the southern part of Egypt recently died from the deadly bird flu virus which now means that fifteen people have died from H5N1 bird flu over the last couple of years in Egypt. The young girl called Mayyada Tuhami caught the virus after playing with chickens that were being reared at her own house in the city of Qena. One of the reasons why she died from the illness is that she was not taken to hospital until a week after the first symptoms of the illness were noted. In order to survive from the bird flu virus it is essential that you get medical treatment, (normally in the form of Tamiflu) within 48 hours.

In all 35 people are officially recorded to have contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus in Egypt however some medical experts reckon that the real figure is far bigger and that people have either died in remote areas with nobody fully understanding why they died or some cases have been deliberately hushed up by owners who do not want to have all of their livestock killed.

To give credit to the Egyptian government they have been extremely efficient and determined in dealing with the bird flu virus. They have organized education campaigns all over the country notably in remote areas and have provided farmers and other people who breed poultry with special advice about what to do is they suspect some of animals are becoming sick.