the international health officials said on sunday that a six - year - old egyptians boy survived bird flu , the sixth such incident in a month . the child was hospitalised on march 28 , reported to be in critical need after treatment , and is breathing with an artificial tracheotomy . the state news agency mena revealed that the patient ' s birthday was ali mahmoud al somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a state located throughout the nile river , sited about fifteen millimetres downstream of egypt ' s capital of cairo . the death toll of the cases of the bird disease virus in humans in egypt is 23 , with the last incident occurring in march 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.