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Saturday, March 28, 2009

The first fatal H5N1 Case in 2009

45 days old “Basmallah" Mohamed Rabi’” died yesterday in the Fayoum general hospital because of H5N1, the baby girl could not be rescued especially that she was admitted to the hospital 24 hours before her death. The poor baby had a very weak immunity system compared to the virus. It could not resist it :(

Already  I wonder how the hell this little baby contacted infect poultry !!! Did her mother carry her around the house or what ??

May God give strength to her parents and family.

Basmallah was No. 61 I believe among the human infection case and No.24 in the death toll in Egypt.

I hope Basmallah would be the last fatal case in Egypt.

There are several suspicion cases across the country announced from this week but without confirmation of their infection and this is why I do not publish any news.

New  hot spots are discovered mainly in Delta on a regular basis now.

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3 comments:

  1. Kobie3/28/2009 01:47:00 PM

    Zeinobia,

    Thank you for the update.

    May God give strength to her parents and family. To think the baby got sick at home when it is so very young is hard to take or understand.

    Yes we are watching the suspected cases to hope they turn out well. Thank you for posting and helping raise awareness of what the news ignores.

    Regards,
    Kobie

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  2. Zeinobia3/31/2009 07:12:00 PM

    @Kobie,

    thanks dear

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  3. Anonymous3/31/2009 11:00:00 PM

    You do understand infected poultry is not the only way humans get H5N1?
    And, that influenza is contagious before symptoms.

    Here's a page with the role of other Mammals from the FAO information March, 2006:
    http://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/animals.html

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