the egyptian health ministry reported on sunday that a ten - night - little egyptian baby contracted spanish flu , the sixth such incident in a month . the child was suffering on march 28 , reported to be in critical condition after treatment , and is breathing with an artificial ventilators . the central news company mena reports that the boy ' s alias was ali abdullah eli somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a province located of the grand delta , located about forty kilometres outside of egypt ' s capital of ibrahim . the death toll of the cases of the bird flu virus in human in egypt is 23 , with the first situation reported in august 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.