bird flu deaths

An Egyptian woman died in hospital on 19/01/2006 from the human form of bird flu. Warda Eid Ahmad, 27, from Beni Suef province, south of Cairo, was transferred to hospital in the capital on January 13 suffering from pneumonia.

An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu, raising the country's death toll to 62, while South Korea was set to slaughter 273,000 poultry after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain at a chicken farm, officials said Saturday. The 19-year-old woman died on Friday after three days in hospital said health ministry official Nyoman Kandun. "She had contact with dead poultry six days before hospitalized," Kandun said. This is the fifth human bird flu fatality in Indonesia since Jan. 9. Before that, Indonesia had not recorded any cases for six weeks – a lull that led some Indonesian officials to say they were succeeding in beating the disease.