Volume 16, Number 7—July 2010
Research
Zoonotic Transmission of Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1), Egypt, 2006–2009
Table 1
Demographic and exposure characteristics for persons with confirmed avian influenza (H5N1), Egypt, 2006–2009
Characteristic | No. (%) persons |
---|---|
Total confirmed cases | 63 |
Deaths | 24 (38.0) |
Women |
40 (63.5) |
Age group, y | |
0–4 | 23 (36.5) |
5–14 | 11 (17.5) |
15–49 | 27 (43.0) |
>50 |
2 (3.0) |
Exposure (no. persons)* | |
Exposure to a confirmed human case before illness (63) | 4 (6.3) |
Occupational (63) | 4 (6.3) |
Exposure to likely infected backyard flocks (63) | 57 (90.5) |
No known exposure (63) | 2 (3.2) |
Consumption of raw or undercooked poultry products (61) | 0 |
Exposure to likely infected backyard flocks (41) | |
Recently purchased domestic poultry from market/seller (41) | 12 (29.2) |
Recently purchased poultry became ill (12) | 7 (58.3) |
Noted illness or death among their birds (41) | 33 (80.5) |
Bred birds (27) | 14 (51.8) |
Slaughtered birds in past 10 d (27) | 13 (48.1) |
Defeathered birds in past 10 d (27) | 13 (48.1) |
*Denominators vary for each exposure because data were not available for all persons.