the egypt health ministry reported on thursday that a six - mile - aged egyptian boy contracting bird flu , the sixth such incident in a month . the child was hospitalised on march 28 , reported to be in critical health after treating , and is panting with an organic respirator . the egyptian media agency mena reveals that the boy ' s name was hussein mohammad ali somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a city located on the great delta , located about seventy millimetres north of egypt ' s capital of cairo . the death toll of the cases of the sparrow lung virus in humans in egypt is 23 , with the first episode reports in march 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.