No bird flu pandemic despite recent deaths - Egyptian health officials
Four humans have died of bird flu in Egypt in the past week but health officials deny the country is gripped by an influenza pandemic.
“There is still no fear that the virus has transformed into an influenza pandemic,” John Jabbour, a medical consultant for emerging diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean, told IRIN.
Sixteen other suspected cases were admitted to hospital on 2 January, according to Amany Nakhla, the regional planning assistant for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) regional office, in Cairo.
