# 5298
On Monday, Ironorehopper posting on FluTrackers began a thread regarding an FAO report of a Cambodian H5N1 fatality in Prek Leap Village earlier this month. The source was listed as an FAO field officer.
Details in the FAO report were scant, providing little beyond the date of the report, a location, and that it involved a human fatality.
Over night Crof and Arkanoid Legent both posted reports giving more details on this case, which involved a 5-year old girl. She is the eleventh known H5N1 case, and ninth fatality to be recorded in Cambodia.
Cambodian girl dies from bird flu: WHO - Crofsblog
Cambodia : Young girl dies of H5N1 in Cambodia – Arkanoid Legent
Prek Leap Village is adjacent to the nation’s capital, Phnom Penh, which in turn is surrounded by Kandal Province.
(Map credit – Wikipedia)
Last night CIDRAP reported on a recent outbreak of H5N1 in Kandal Province, in their nightly flu news scan.
Cambodia, Bangladesh report H5N1 outbreaks
Cambodia reported its first H5N1 avian influenza outbreak of 2011 yesterday, and Bangladesh reported three new outbreaks, according to official and local media reports.
The outbreak in Cambodia occurred in a village in Kandal province, located in the south central part of the country, according to a report yesterday from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The virus killed 48 birds, and 174 more were culled to slow the spread of the disease. Cambodia reported its last H5N1 outbreak in October 2010.
Cambodia reported 4 cases (all fatal) in 2005, and 2 cases in 2006 (again, all fatal). In 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 they reported 1 case each year, with 3 of those surviving.
The fatality rate of known Cambodian cases stands at just under 82%.
Given the difficulties involved in surveillance for and testing of suspected bird flu infections and outbreaks – particularly in some of the more remote areas of southeast Asia – the accuracy and completeness of the above numbers is difficult to ascertain.
