Friday, April 13, 2007

Cambodia: Poultry Deaths Confirmed H5N1

 

# 660

 

Not really a surprise, but confirmation.  Last week Cambodia registered its first human case of H5N1 for 2007, which resulted in the death of a 13-year-old girl, from Ponhea Kreak district in Kampong Cham province.    Her illness was contracted after poultry reportedly died in the area.

 

 

 

Bird flu turns up in Cambodia

13 Apr 2007

Sen Sovann, deputy director of the animal health department of the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture in Phnom Penh has reported the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in a chicken flock.

 

 

The chickens were found ill on April 6 and H5N1 was confirmed on April 12. Bird Flu was not reported in Cambodia since September 2006.

 

The outbreak was reported in the Cham area in a flock of 1,086 birds of which suddenly 300 birds died. The rest of the flock has been destroyed.


The stamping out procedure w
as undertaken on 11 April 2007. Surveillance in the villages around the outbreak is ongoing