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Reuters is reporting a little good news this morning, with the announcement that the 19-year-old from Cambodia, hospitalized for the past 10 days with the H5N1 virus, has been sent home.
Worldwide, the mortality rate among known H5N1 patients has been just over 60%, making this young man very lucky indeed.
In most cases, early diagnosis and treatment has been credited as the reason many of these patients have survived, but in this case, this young man was sick for nearly two weeks before being hospitalized.
This is the eighth known case in Cambodia, and that country's first successful treatment of the disease.
Cambodian survives H5N1 bird flu virus: official
2 hrs 28 mins ago
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A 19-year old Cambodian man has survived the H5N1 bird flu virus which has killed seven other people in the poor Southeast Asian nation since 2005, a health ministry official said on Sunday.
The youth, who became infected after eating dead poultry, was discharged from a Phnom Penh hospital on Saturday after being treated for 10 days, Ly Sovann, deputy director of communicable disease control department, said.
"He left safe and sound," Ly Sovann told Reuters.
Cambodia began culling poultry near its capital last week, and ordered a three-month ban on poultry being moved from the province of Kandal, 50 km (30 miles) south of Phnom Penh, after tests confirmed it was hit by the deadly virus.
