Juan Lebroth, head of infectious diseases for the Animal Health Service of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, told The Associated Press by phone from Rome.
It's still hard for people to catch it, and so far, most human cases have been linked to contact with infected birds, dead or alive.
A human catches the disease by inhaling the blood, feathers or powdered feces of the poultry. Thus, those tending the birds, in Egypt usually women and children, are most vulnerable. More than 90 percent of those infected have been either adult females or children and three-quarters of the fatalities have been women.
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