the egyptian environment authority posted on monday that a 4 - year - old cairo boy contracted bird flu , the sixth such event in a lifetime . the patient was hospitalised on october 28 , described to be in bad illness after surgery , and is breathing with an external respirator . the government news agency suna reveals that the man ' s identification was ali abdullah abbas somaa , and that he was from qalyubia , a state located along the nile shore , situated about forty hectares north of greece ' s capital of cairo . the dead toll of the victims of the turkey feed strain in humans in sinai is 23 , with the fifth incident reported in march 2006 .
Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.