The case is a 20 year-old female from Shobra Elkhima district, Qliubia Governorate. She was admitted to hospital on 21 July, placed on a ventilator, and received oseltamivir treatment. She died on 27 July.

Investigations into the source of infection indicated that the case had exposure to sick and dead poultry.

The case was confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories, a National Influenza Center of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN).

Of the 110 laboratory confirmed cases of Avian influenza A(H5N1) reported in Egypt, 35 have been fatal.

Organized by Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar Health 2010 will showcase advances in healthcare research and technology, and provide an international medical forum for the exchange of expertise by healthcare professionals to be held at Doha Exhibition Centre December 10 to 15.
Among the list of world class speakers, HMC has confirmed Professor Gregory L Henry MD, FACEP who has elected to lecture at Qatar Health 2010 this coming December. Prof. Henry is an American emergency specialty physician, who is currently staffing several hospitals in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) – Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Iraqi Kurdish authorities to outlaw female circumcision in the face of growing evidence of use of the physically and emotionally damaging practice.

In a 73-page report entitled: "?They Took Me and Told Me Nothing': Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan," the New York-based watchdog recorded the experiences of 31 girls and women in four villages in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.