Cairo, 23 April-(ANA)-A 25-year-old Egyptian woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the 25th human fatality of the disease in Egypt, state news agency MENA has reported.
The woman, from Cairo, died of respiratory failure, the report said.
In another development, a six-year-old boy, Ali Mohamed Ali Somaa from Qalyubia became Egypt's first bird flu fatality of 2009, MENA quoted a health ministry spokesman as saying.
Somaa had been admitted to hospital in late March.(ANA)
