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	Flu in Egypt

rfnajera

1-7-2008 10:56 AM

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flu, influenza, egypt, who, cdc, bird, avian, h5n1, epidemiology, surveillance

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2f8c94e4-ec5f-4091-a729-960e98452b49/D35D3C11-B50D-4830-9D8B-3ECC8B1C47B9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.agoravox.com/print_article.php3?id_article=7459&format=print" href="http://www.agoravox.com/print_article.php3?id_article=7459&format=print" style="font-size: 11px;">www.agoravox.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.agoravox.com/print_article.php3?id_article=7459&format=print"><BLOCKQUOTE>CAIRO: Hospitals nationwide reportedly quarantined more human cases suspected of being infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus.<P class="spip">According to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, Damietta — where the
latest Bird Flu victim Hanem Atwa Ibrahim, 50, died late on Monday Dec.
31 in a Cairo hospital — hosts the largest number of cases with five
people suspected of carrying the virus, while the Upper Egyptian city
of Qena came next, with two cases, followed by El-Beheira with one
case. (<A href="http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=11159" linkindex="0">Egypt Daily Star</A>)</P><P class="spip"></P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.agoravox.com/print_article.php3?id_article=7459&format=print">Any kind of influenza infection in humans is potentially
serious and life threatening. That’s true in the US, where the
estimated excess mortality exceeds 35,000 deaths a year, or in Egypt.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.agoravox.com/print_article.php3?id_article=7459&format=print">Egypt’s
population is about a fifth of the US population, so on that basis
alone we might expect 7000 excess deaths from influenza, mostly
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