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February 25, 2008

Egypt confirms 44th human bird flu case

CAIRO, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Ministry of Health confirmed Monday that a four-year-old girl was infected with bird flu virus in Egypt, bringing the number of human infection case to 44 in the populous Arab country.

The latest case was detected in El Minya governorate, Upper Egypt, some 220 km south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shaheen was quoted by the official MENA news agency as saying.

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