Across the World: Cambodia
China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-13 08:09
New case of bird flu
Cambodia's Health Ministry has announced the country's eighth human case of virulent bird flu since 2005.
The ministry said in a statement with the UN's World Health Organization that a man from Kandal province, east of the capital Phnom Penh, was confirmed by laboratory tests Thursday to have the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. The man is being treated at Calmette Hospital in the capital.
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