Egypt reported on Friday another case of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the total number of the flu in the populous country to 72, according to the Ministry of Health.

The new case is a 16-year-old girl who just came to Egypt with her family from London, Health Ministry said in a statement.

The statement said that the health condition of the new case is stable after proper treatment, adding that 51 of the country's total 72 cases have recovered.

Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 flu case on June 2, a 12-year-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country that was hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu A/H1N1.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the new disease has killed 337 people in 121 nations and regions and the number of the total infected exceeded 80,000 worldwide.

(Xinhua News Agency July 4, 2009)