Wednesday, May 30, 2012

3rd Case H5N1 Found

World Health Organization (WHO) declared that a 10 years old Cambodian girl was infected by avian influenza virus, H5N1 and died on May 28, 2012. This is the 3rd case in this year,

Ministry of Health cooperated with WHO have announced on May 20, 2012. The infected girl, Im Sokhorn, had got high fever seriously cough since May 20, 2012 but had sent to Kantha Bopha hospital 5days later on May 25, 2012. The girl was tested positive of H5N1 by Institute Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) on May 26, 2012.

Recently, there are reports about infected poultries and died in many villages and also have patients that are infected from this poultries by eating their flesh as meal.

The girl is from Baseth district, Kampong Speu province who is ths 21st of the infected patientsof this virus since 2003. She is the 3rd that infected by H5N1 in 2012 and 9th who died of this disease

A record from WHO said there are 357 patient who infected by this virus died since 2003. They noticed that this virus first found infected people in China, Vietnam and Indonesia. It also noticed that all are died after.

Link to first case, second case

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