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Egypt death is bird flu, test says
SPECIAL REPORTYOUR E-MAIL ALERTSCAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Initial testing indicated that an Egyptian woman who died Thursday near Cairo was a victim of bird flu, a World Health Organization spokesman said. If confirmed by the next level of testing, it would be Egypt's first human case of the disease. The 30-year-old woman, who had "significant contact with poultry," first showed symptoms of the illness on March 6 and she died Thursday, according to WHO spokesman Dick Thompson. Tests conducted by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo indicated the woman died of bird flu, but the confirmation does not become official until the samples are tested at a WHO reference lab, Thompson said. The samples have been packaged for shipment from Cairo to a WHO lab in London or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, he said. 
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