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Volume 16, Number 7—July 2010
Research

Zoonotic Transmission of Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1), Egypt, 2006–2009

Amr Kandeel, Serge Manoncourt, Eman Abd el Kareem, Abdel-Nasser Mohamed Ahmed, Samir El-Refaie, Hala Essmat, Jeffrey Tjaden, Cecilia C. de Mattos, Kenneth C. EarhartComments to Author , Anthony A. Marfin, and Nasr El-Sayed
Author affiliations: Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt (A. Kandeel, E.A. el Kareem, A.-N. M. Ahmed, S. El-Refaie, H. Essmat, N. El-Sayed); US Naval Medical Research Unit 3, Cairo (S. Manoncourt, H. Essmat, J. Tjaden, C.C. de Mattos, K.C. Earhart, A.A. Marfin); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A.A. Marfin)

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Table 4

CFRs for 63 persons infected with avian influenza virus (H5N1), Egypt, 2006–2009*

Characteristic Total no. No. died CFR, %
Sex†
F 40 21 52.5
M
 23
 3
 13
Age group, y‡
0–4 23 0 0
5–14 11 2 18
15–49 27 20 74
>50 2 2 100
All ages
 63
 24
 38
Days between illness onset and hospitalization§
0–2 32 4 12.5
3–4 12 4 33
5–6 9 8 89
>7
 9
 8
 89
Days between illness onset and first oseltamivir dose¶
0–2 25 1 4
3–4 14 3 21
5–6 7 5 71
>7 12 11 92

*CFR, case-fatality rate.
†p = 0.0004, by χ2 test for CFR for female patients vs. that for male patients.
‡p<0.001, by χ2 test for patients <15 years of age vs. patients >15 years of age.
§p<0.001, by χ2 test for patients hospitalized <2 d after illness onset vs. patients hospitalized after 2 d.
¶p<0.001, by χ2 test for patients who received oseltamivir <2 d after illness onset vs. patients who received oseltamivir after 2 d.

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