CAIRO (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Egyptian woman died of birdflu on Sunday, the second fatality among humans in Egypt inless than one week, the Health Ministry said.

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)