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Article: VOA NEWS: EGYPT FINDS NEW CASES OF BIRD FLU IN POULTRY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 4, 2006
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Leslie Boctor
Egypt is preparing for possible comeback of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain. The government said Monday four new cases were detected in poultry south of Cairo in the province of Souhag.
Just days after Egypt's minister of agriculture announced that the country had passed through the worst of the bird flu crisis, four new cases were discovered.
Six people have died of bird flu in Egypt since the disease first broke out in March.
The latest cases were found in a village in Souhag, 350 kilometers south of the capital. Poultry within a kilometer radius of the areas was slaughtered.
Hassan el-Bushra, a regional advisor from ...