Bird Flu Monitor > First human death of H5N1 bird flu in Egypt

[Fustat] The thirty year old Amal Muhammed Ismail from the village of Nawa in the Qalyubiyya province 40 Km from Cairo, became the first human victim of the virus. She maintained a domestic chicken farm, altough the government decided to ban them in the wake of the first cases of birds contaminated with the virus last month.´She had been treated with tamiflu, the authorities had sent samples to Britain for further tests.