26.01.2013

The Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH) reported three new human cases of avian influenza, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year. The cases are among the first reported in 2013 for the H5N1 virus. WHO and Cambodia's health ministry announced that a 15-year-old girl in a village in southeastern Takeo province and a 35-year-old man in central Kampong Speu province died after being hospitalized with H5N1. An 8-month-old boy in the capital, Phnom Penh, was treated and survived. Cambodia reported three cases last year, all of them fatal. Since 2005, it has recorded 21 cases, 19 of them fatal.