February 14, 2013
A 3-year-old Cambodian girl has become the sixth person to die from bird flu in the country this year. Cambodia’s Health Ministry and the World
Health Organization said Wednesday that the child was in contact with
poultry in her village in southern Kampot province, where there were
recent deaths among poultry. Cambodia has registered seven human cases
this year of the virus, also called avian influenza, or H5N1. Only one
has survived. The H5N1 virus normally spreads between sick poultry, but
it can sometimes spread from poultry to humans. The WHO says bird flu
has killed 365 other people worldwide since surfacing in 2003.—AP
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