VZCZCXRO3770
PP RUEHAST RUEHHM RUEHLN RUEHMA RUEHPB RUEHPOD RUEHTM RUEHTRO
DE RUEHEG #0210 0361320
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 051320Z FEB 09
FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1556
INFO RUEHZN/ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEHPH/CDC ATLANTA GA PRIORITY

UNCLAS CAIRO 000210 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR AIAG (AMBASSADOR LANGE AND DAVID WINN), NEA/ELA FOR SCHALL, 
DEPT PASS TO AID (DENNIS CARROLL) 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
SUBJECT: EGYPT'S 54th BIRD FLU VICTIM, 1st FROM SUEZ 
 
REF 09 CAIRO 0173 
 
 
Sensitive but Unclassified.  Please handle accordingly. 
 
¶1. (SBU) On February 4, 2009, Egypt's Ministry of Health and 
Population (MOHP) announced the country's 54th human avian influenza 
(AI) victim: a two-year-old boy from the Ganian district in the Suez 
Governorate. 
 
¶2. (SBU) The boy, the first AI victim in Suez, got sick February 2, 
was hospitalized February 3, received Tamiflu the same day, and is 
in good condition.  MOHP's Central Laboratories and NAMRU-3 have 
confirmed the boy was struck by the H5N1 virus. 
 
¶3. (SBU) While Egypt's young children have been hit hard by AI-the 
boy from Suez is the 23rd victim here under age ten- every one of 
them has survived (reftel.) 
 
Scobey