Egyptian boy tests positive for bird flu

CAIRO, Egypt - A 4-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the potentially deadly strain of bird flu, bringing to two dozen the number of people to be diagnosed with the disease since it appeared in the country last year, the Health Ministry said Sunday.

Separately, a 20-year-old Indonesian woman who is in the hospital in critical condition has been confirmed to be suffering from bird flu, an official at the national bird flu center said on Monday. The woman from East Java, who is on a respirator in a hospital in Surabaya, had cleaned an area where her neighbor had dumped a lot of dead chickens, Joko Suyono, a data analyst at the center in Jakarta, told Reuters.

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