Ten-Year-Old Egyptian Girl Dies From Bird Flu

Ten-year-old Mayada Tohami has become the youngest person in Egypt to die of bird flu since the first human case was recorded in the country in March 2006. Hers was the 15th death of the 35 human cases reported to date.

Mayada, from Naqada village in Upper Egypt's Qena province, died on Sunday morning from the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus, officials reported. A spokesperson from Egypt's health ministry confirmed that she was the youngest person to die of bird flu in the country to date. The previous youngest was a 15-year-old girl who died on 10 April.

Egypt has the greatest number of recorded human cases of H5N1 outside of Asia.

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