Bird Flu Kills Nine In Egypt.

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This is a darn unpleasant development.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aVw4.HxBKoSk&refer=europe

Avian flu has infected 19 people in Egypt – including the four cases recorded during the past week – killing nine of them. Infections in Egyptian poultry were reported for the first time in February.

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All of the nine fatalities in Egypt have been female, suggesting women are more at risk of avian flu than men, the United Nations’ Integrated Regional Information Network reported yesterday.

``Women in the countryside are traditionally in charge of looking after domestically kept birds, which are the most likely to be infected with bird flu,‘’ the UN news service quoted Hamdi Abdel Wahed, a health ministry spokesman, as saying.