The woman, identified as housewife Warda Eid Ahmed from Beni Suef, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) south of Cairo, had tested positive for H5N1 strain.

She was admitted to hospital a week ago, health ministry official Abdel Rahman Chahine told the Middle East News Agency on Friday.

The report did not say how Ahmed contracted the virus. Most people get it through contact with infected birds which they raise at home, or while slaughtering or cleaning chicken.

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