EGYPT has reported a fourth suspected case of bird flu in humans - a 17-year-old boy whose father had an outbreak of the disease on his chicken farm in the Nile Delta.
Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali said the boy was taken to hospital in the town of Tanta and treated with Tamiflu, the drug used to fight bird flu in humans.
His condition was "good and stable", he said.
The teenager was the fourth Egyptian suspected of contracting the disease from infected birds. Of the first three, one died, one recovered and the third is receiving treatment.
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