The Ministerial Committee established to combat the spread of Avian Flu, and chaired by the Minister of Health, has been continuously monitoring and reviewing developments of spread of the disease and regulations applied in the field of combating the disease as follows:

 

Yesterday, 23/12/2006, the sample for the person from the governorate of Gharbia, Hanout village was tested positive. It is the 18^th case to be tested positive. Notably, this case belongs to the same family of the last two infected cases yesterday.

 

The case was transferred to the Abbassiya Hospital in Cairo to receive treatment and it is now stable.

 

All fowls at the infected house and neighboring ones were culled and testing of persons in contact is ongoing.