Fatma Fathi Mohamed died in hospital in the Nile Delta cityof Mansoura, three days after she was admitted to a smallerlocal hospital with a high temperature and difficultybreathing, it said in a statement carried by the state newsagency MENA.
Her death was the 17th in Egypt since the virus was firstdetected in February 2006.
(Writing by Jonathan Wright; editing by Keith Weir)