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The Associated press is reporting that both children reported earlier as being hospitalized (see Irin News: Reporting 4th Cambodian H5N1 Case) with the H5N1 virus in Cambodia have now died.
This from the Vancouver Sun.
Cambodia reports 2 new fatal cases of bird flu in humans, surpassing total for all of 2012
By The Associated Press January 28, 2013 8:40 AM
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Two more children have died in Cambodia of bird flu, bringing the number of fatal cases to four since the start of this year.
The Cambodian office of the U.N.'s World Health Organization said a 17-month-old girl from central Kampong Speu province and a 9-year-old girl from southern Kampot province died Monday after being hospitalized
If confirmed, it will mean of the 16 known human infections reported out of Cambodia since 2010, none have survived. And since the first human case was reported in 2005, just 2 of 25 known victims will have survived (a dismal 92% fatality rate).
In a report carried earlier today on Crofsblog (see Cambodia: More details on the fourth H5N1 case) an article in The Phnom Penh Post Fourth bird flu case confirmed quotes a local medical expert as saying:
Due to less-rigorous monitoring of the disease in other hospitals, the cases seen in Kantha Bopha hospital were likely just the “tip of the iceberg”, said Dr Philippe Buchy, head of the virology unit at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, the medical research centre that tested the recent cases.
As I pointed out this morning in Irin News: Reporting 4th Cambodian H5N1 Case, there is always a degree of ambiguity when it comes to detecting and counting cases of H5N1 - or any other disease – particularly in low resource countries.
