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Health Ministry taking measures to counter Zika
The Ministry of Health is taking precautionary measures to prevent the transmission of Zika and is asking the public to do the same, as the virus has emerged in other Southeast Asian countries and could make a comeback in the Kingdom. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-taking-measures-counter-zika
Gov’t advises to bundle up
As Cambodia braces for a cold snap expected to last through early January, the Ministry of Health on Sunday evening urged citizens to take precautions against common winter maladies. In a joint statement with the World Health Organization (WHO), the ministry warned that the Kingdom is ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-advises-bundle
Hand, foot and mouth disease reoccurs in Cambodia, killing 1
Hand, foot and mouth disease ( HFMD), which is caused by enterovirus 71 (EV-71), has reappeared in Cambodia and recently killed a boy and sickened seven other children, a local Kampuchea Thmey Daily newspaper reported Wednesday. Dr. Ly Sovann, chief of the Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease ...
Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/24/c_133286742.htm
Compensation for culled poultry is a catch-22
Since its emergence in the region more than a decade ago, the governments of Southeast Asia have been fighting to contain the human avian influenza virus through surveillance programs, rigorous inspections and widespread culling of infected birds. In Cambodia last year, 13 people died of ...
Simon Henderson and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/compensation-for-culled-poultry-is-a-catch-22-52485/