the egyptian health ministries reported on sunday that a two - year - old sudanese boy experienced bird flu , the fifteenth such incident in a month . the child was hospitalised on march 28 , reports to be in critical condition after treatment , and is breathing with an experimental ventilators . the state information portal elaborating claimed that the boy ' s name was ali mahmoud egyptian somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a province located along the nile delta , located about 40 miles north of egypt ' s seat of medina . the death toll of the events of the bird flu virus in humans in 2012 is 23 , with the first case reported in march 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.