According to the ministry, the woman who contracted the virus in the Beni Suweif province 130 km south of capital Cairo was hospitalized last Friday with a fever and breathing difficulties.
Abdul Rahman Shahin said this was the 16th victim of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus since the first case was reported in the Middle East country in February 2006.
Of 39 Egyptians infected with bird flu, mostly women and children who contracted the virus after coming into contact with infected poultry, 16 have died.
A total of 207 deaths have been registered worldwide by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2003.
Although no cases of human-to-human transmission of avian influenza have been reported, scientists fear the virus could mutate into a strain that could pass easily from person to person, causing a global pandemic.
