Cambodian Boy Becomes The 10th H5N1 Bird Flu Death Of The Year
A 9-year-old boy has become the 10th person this year to die of bird flu in Cambodia, the World Health Organization announced Monday. The U.N. agency said the boy from a village in northeastern Battambang province came down with fever and vomiting on July 26 and was diagnosed with the H5N1 avian influenza virus on Aug. 9. In stable condition at first, he died late Sunday. … The 10 fatalities this year are the country’s highest annual total since the virus surfaced in 2003, and also the highest for any country this year. There have been more than 633 confirmed cases of bird flu worldwide since 2003, about 60 per cent of them fatal.
