The two new cases, both of whom are currently receiving treatment in hospital, bring the total number of human bird flu cases in Egypt to 41, Kandeel added. State news agency MENA said the Menoufia case was 22-year-old Nora Aboul Abbas Mohamed, but gave no details for the second case. On Wednesday, 25-year-old Ola Younis died of bird flu in Beni Suef province, south of Cairo, on the same day she was diagnosed as being infected with the highly pathogenic virus. She was the 16th fatality from bird flu in Egypt. The H5N1 virus which causes bird flu tends to lie dormant during the summer and Egyptian officials had hoped that after two years of outbreaks it would not re-occur this winter. But John Jabbour, an official at the World Health Organization, said the new cases were not surprising. Read more at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071228/hl_nm/egyptians_bird_flu_dc;_ylt=AsmKQA_uWYsenQTZIGaqSiwQ.3QA