Avian Influenza H5N1 — Egypt
Egypt recently reported 3 new H5N1 avian flu cases, all in people who had been exposed to poultry or their environments, according to a monthly update from the World Health Organization (WHO) on animal-to-human flu transmission events for the middle of June through the middle of July 2016.
One of the patients is a 2-year-old boy from Cairo who got sick on 30 May 2016 and whose H5N1 illness was detected as part of flulike illness surveillance. He was hospitalized, treated with antivirals for
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