Egypt had already banned the import of live birds, tightened its quarantine controls and tested tens of thousands of bird samples. But the definitive moment came Thursday when the government ...

An Egyptian woman has died of H5N1 bird flu in southern Egypt, the third person in the country to die of the illness this year, a health ministry official said on Friday. The woman, 43, lived in a ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt reported its second human case of avian flu Sunday, and Israel continued its slaughter of hundreds of thousands of birds while waiting to learn if the disease had spread to ...

Another Egyptian has died of H5N1 bird flu, bringing the total number of deaths in Egypt from the virus to seven this year out of 14 identified cases, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

Egypt has had 65 cases of bird flu, including 26 deaths, since 2006 -- the highest national toll outside Asia, where the virus, designated as H5N1, was believed to have first appeared in humans in ...

An ancient Egyptian bird mummy, long forgotten in storage and mislabeled as a hawk, is finally getting its due now that researchers have digitally peered inside its wrappings. The 1,500-year-old ...

CAIRO, Egypt - Initial tests at a U.S. Navy lab show that a 35-year-old woman who died this week in Egypt had bird flu, officials said Saturday. If the results are confirmed, she would be the ...

Wade said all of the birds from the study had broken necks and were likely deliberately killed, probably as a sacrifice to the god Thoth. Humans at the time were also sacrificed to appease the gods.

An Egyptian health ministry official has announced the death of a 30-year-old woman of bird flu, raising the country's deaths to 22. The official said the woman contracted the H5N1 virus from ...

Egypt suffered a major outbreak of bird flu in 2006 that led to the suspension of all poultry exports. Authorities have been pressing to renew them, and earlier this year, the World Organization ...