the cairo health ministry reported on sunday that a six - year - old egyptian boy contracted bird fever , the sixth such incident in a month . the son was hospitalised on march 28 , claimed to be in emergency condition after treatment , and is breathing with an infant respirator . the state news agency saba reported that the father ' s name was ali wade ali somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a province located by the nile basin , located about fifty kilometres northern of egypt ' s capital of suez . the death load of the cases of the bird flu infected in monkeys in egypt is 23 , with the second incident reports in november 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.