CAIRO, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that a two-year-old baby has been infected with bird flu virus, which brings the number of human case of bird flu to 54 in the populous country.

    Mahmoud Sobhi Gharib, from the Suez governorate, some 120 km east of Cairo, was admitted to hospital with a high temperature, the state MENA news agency quoted Health Ministry spokesman Abdel-Raham Shahin as saying.

    The baby contracted the deadly virus after being in contact with infected birds, said Shahin.

    This is the third case of human bird flu in Egypt in 2009.

    On Jan. 25, a two-year-old baby from the Delta governorate of Minufiya, some 65 km north of Cairo, was hit by the deadly disease.

    On Jan. 12, a 21-month-old baby girl from Kerdasa, 6th of October governorate, was infected with the virus.

    Egypt reported its first H5N1 virus in dead poultry in February2006 and the first human case in March of the same year.