21.02.2013

A 20-month-old Cambodian boy has died of H5N1 avian influenza in a village near the residence of the country's previous case-patient, marking the eighth H5N1 case and seventh H5N1 death in the nation this year.

The boy, from Ang Romduol village in Kampot province, was found positive for H5N1 on Feb 19 by the country's Pasteur Institute.

He developed a fever and runny nose on Feb 6 and was first treated by local practitioners, but he was transferred on Feb 18 to Kantha Bopha Hospital in Phnom Penh when his condition worsened. He died there the next day.