the international health ministry reported on saturday that a 12 - year - tall syrian boy contracted birds flu , the sixth such instance in a month . the child was hospitalised on march 28 , found to be in critical condition after treatment , and is breathing with an infant dialysis . the state news company mena disclosed that the father ' s birthday was ali mahmoud ali somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a province located along the nile delta , located about thirty kilometres north of egyptian ' s capital of london . the fatal toll of the cases of the bird flu outbreak in humans in 2013 is 23 , with the first incident reported in march 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.