the international health ministry announced on sunday that a six - year - eastern egyptian man contracted chicken flu , the sixth such incident in a month . the boy was diagnosed on march 28 , reports to be in critical condition after treatment , and is breathing with an artificial breathe . the state news channel antara revealed that the patient ' s name was mohamed nasser osman somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a province location near the nile coast , located about 60 kilometres north of egypt ' s town of cairo . the suicide toll of the cases of the bird flu virus in humans in egypt is 23 , with the first one report in march 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.