Cambodia reports two new bird flu cases, one dies

10 March 2014
Xinhuanet News
Avian influenza (bird flu) / Civil society / Health care policy and administration / Hospitals and clinics / Priority health concerns / Public health / Social development
Kantha Bopha Children Hospital / WHO / World Health Organization

Two more new human cases of avian influenza H5N1 have been confirmed in Cambodia, and one of them, an 11-year-old boy died on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Kantha Bopha Children Hospital, a hospital representative confirmed Monday. “An 11-year-old boy from Kampong Chhnang province was admitted to the hospital last week and tested positive for H5N1 virus, ” Dr. Denis Laurent, deputy director of Kantha Bopha Children Hospital, the kingdom’s largest pediatric hospital, told Xinhua. …

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