Bird flu case (human) detected in Cambodia - 19, male, Kandal Province, November 28, 2008, 57-year-old male, from Ponhea Kreak District, Kampong Cham Province
Bird flu case (human) detected in Cambodia - 19, male, Kandal Province, November 28, 2008, 57-year-old male, from Ponhea Kreak District, Kampong Cham Province
Bird flu case detected in Cambodia
Posted : Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:21:07 GMT
Phnom Penh - Cambodian health workers converged on a town near the capital Phnom Penh after a man was diagnosed with avian flu, officials said Friday.
The 19-year-old man from Kandal Province fell ill on November 28 and was being treated in a Phnom Penh hospital, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation said in a joint statement.
The statement said field teams were searching for other infected residents in the town and the Ministry of Agriculture was investigating poultry deaths in the area.
The unidentified man was diagnosed on Thursday. It is the eighth case of bird flu detected in Cambodia since 2005.
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH, KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA, AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
The Ministry of Health in Cambodia confirmed that a 19-year-old man is the eighth person who has been detected with confirmed avian influenza in Cambodia since early 2005. This is the first case of avian influenza detected in Cambodia in 2008. The patient is from Kandal Steung District in Kandal Province.
The patient became ill with fever, cough, muscle ache and sore throat on 28th November and sought medical attention at local health centres originally on 30th November and again on 2nd December. The patient was identified during surveillance for acute fever illness, a research study conducted in the province and confirmatory testing was done by the National Influenza Centre in Phnom Penh on 11th December.
The patient is currently being treated in Calmette hospital, Phnom Penh. Field investigation teams, headed by MoH are in the field to identify human contacts and start prophylaxis treatment.
The Ministry of Health will continue to go house to house in the affected area looking for people who have a fever, cough and contact with sick or dead chickens. Public education materials will also be distributed.
The Ministry of Agriculture are conducting a detailed investigation into poultry deaths in the area around the village.
This is the 8th confirmed case of human H5N1 influenza in Cambodia. All previous 7 cases died. The last case occurred in April 2007. Globally there have been 389 confirmed cases of human H5N1 infections of which 246 have died.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia's Health Ministry has announced the country's eighth human case of virulent bird flu since 2005.
The ministry said in a statement with the UN's World Health Organization that a man from Kandal province, east of the capital Phnom Penh, was confirmed by laboratory tests Thursday to have the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.
The man is being treated at Calmette Hospital in the capital. The case was the first this year in Cambodia, where the seven previous victims of the disease have died.
The World Health Organization says there have been 390 confirmed cases of the disease in humans worldwide since 2003. Of those, 246 were fatal. - AP
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Published Date 12-DEC-2008
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human (77): Cambodia
AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (77): CAMBODIA
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Date: 12 Dec 2008
From: Ministry of Health, Cambodia and World Health Organization, Cambodia
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Eighth human case of avian influenza in Cambodia -- 11th Dec 2008
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The Ministry of Health in Cambodia confirmed that a 19 year old man is the
eighth person who has been detected with confirmed avian influenza in
Cambodia since early 2005. This is the first case of avian influenza
detected in Cambodia in 2008. The patient is from Kandal Steung District in
Kandal Province.
The patient became ill with fever, cough, muscle ache and sore throat on
[28 Nov 2008] and sought medical attention at local health centres
originally on [30 Nov 2008] and again on [2 Dec 2008]. The patient was
identified during surveillance for acute fever illness, a research study
conducted in the province and confirmatory testing was done by the National
Influenza Centre in Phnom Penh on [11 Dec 2008].
The patient is currently being treated in Calmette hospital, Phnom Penh.
Field investigation teams, headed by MoH are in the field to identify human
contacts and start prophylaxis treatment. The Ministry of Health will
continue to go house to house in the affected area looking for people who
have a fever, cough and contact with sick or dead chickens. Public
education materials will also be distributed.
The Ministry of Agriculture are conducting a detailed investigation into
poultry deaths in the area around the village.
This is the 8th confirmed case of human H5N1 influenza in Cambodia. All
previous 7 cases died. The last case occurred in April 2007. Globally there
have been 389 confirmed cases of human H5N1 infections of which 246 have died.
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Dr Sok Touch
Director of Communicable Disease Control Department
Ministry of Health, Cambodia
Dr Ly Sovann
Deputy Director Communicable Disease Control Department
Dr Michael O'Leary
WHO Representative. WHO/Cambodia
Dr Nima Asgari
Epidemiologist. WHO/Cambodia
[The efficacy of the febrile illness disease surveillance efforts in
Cambodia are impressive. As of the time of this report, there have not been
reports of cases of avian influenza in the avian population in Cambodia.
The last report of an avian outbreak of H5N1 in Cambodia was in April 2007 .
Cambodian man gets bird flu, first case since 2007
12 Dec 2008
Source: Reuters
PHNOM PENH, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A 19-year-old Cambodian who ate dead poultry has been confirmed with H5N1 bird flu, the country's first human case in more than 18 months, the World Health Organization (WHO) and government said on Friday.
The man, the eighth person in Cambodia to have contracted bird flu since its first case in 2005, was in a stable condition in the capital's Calmette hospital, Sok Touch, head of the Health Ministry's Communicable Diseases department, said in a statement.
The patient, who came from the province of Kandal, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Phnom Penh, fell ill on Nov. 28 but was only confirmed as having bird flu on Thursday, the joint Health Ministry-WHO statement said.
All seven of Cambodia's previous cases have died.
Since H5N1 resurfaced in Asia in 2003 it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, according to the WHO.
Experts fear the constantly mutating H5N1 virus could change into a form easily transmitted from person to person and potentially kill millions worldwide. (Reporting by Ek Madra; Editing by Darren Schuettler and Jerry Norton)
Cambodia confirms new bird flu case
Posted: 12 December 2008 1753 hrs
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A Cambodian worker carries chickens from a car at a market in Phnom Penh (file picture)
PHNOM PENH : A new outbreak of bird flu in Cambodia has infected a 19-year-old local man, the Cambodian government and the UN health agency said on Friday.
The outbreak occurred in Kandal province, on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, and is the first confirmed infection of the deadly H5N1 virus in Cambodia this year, the ministry of health and World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a joint statement.
The statement said the man began to show bird flu symptoms of fever, cough, muscle aches and a sore throat on November 28, and was being treated in Phnom Penh's Calmette hospital after tests confirmed his infection.
"At this point, there's no information on further spread but we're awaiting the results of today's investigation," the WHO's Dr. Michael O'Leary told AFP.
Cambodia's ministry of agriculture was conducting an investigation on Friday into poultry deaths around the village where the man was infected, while the ministry of health was examining people in the area.
It is the eighth confirmed case of bird flu spreading to a human in Cambodia. All previous cases in the country have died, but O'Leary was hopeful the man would survive.
"Roughly two thirds of confirmed bird flu cases around the world have died." O'Leary said.
The previous recorded bird flu infection of a person in the country occurred last year, when a 13-year-old girl died of the virus.
The WHO says the deadly H5N1 strain has killed nearly 250 people, mostly in Southeast Asia, since 2003. - AFP/ms
Special operation to prevent bird flu outbreak launched in 9 provinces
BANGKOK, Dec12 (TNA) - As neighbouring Cambodia now faces an outbreak of bird flu, Thailand's Livestock Development Department launched a special operation to prevent the reappearance of the potentially deadly virus in nine lower northern provinces, in an attempt to restore consumer confidence.
Maj-Gen. Sanan Kajornprasart, deputy prime minister and also acting minister of agriculture and cooperatives, said that from December 15 to 20, department's teams will disinfect farms in nine lower northern provinces and instruct farm families to separate all poultry from human habitations as a preventative measure against avian influenza.
The nine provinces considered most at risk are Sukhothai, Uthai Thani, Phitsanulok, Uttaradit, Nakhon Sawan, Kampaeng Phet, Pichit, Phetchabun and Tak.
Gen. Sanan said that the operation was an attempt to prevent the spread of bird flu virus to other provinces. Sukhothai and Uthai Thani would be however under a special, closer watch because there have been cases reported there in the past.
Health officials detected the H5N1 strain of bird flu in a dead fowl in Sukhothai's Thung Salium district in late
October.
Also, a number of birds were found dead with unknown causes in Nong Chang district of Uthai Thai province in mid-November.
Veterinarian Yukol Limlaemthong, acting director-general of the livestock department, said that the department's technical staff will also inform rural families regarding self-preventative measures to reduce risk of contracting the virus.
Dr. Yukol also advised villagers in the nine at-risk provinces that cockfighting should be avoided during this period.
When asked whether to use bird flu vaccine to control the outbreak, Dr. Yukol said that he was not sure if the vaccine would be effective, as it has been used in Hong Kong during the past six years, but poultry was recently found carrying the bird flu virus. (TNA)
The Ministry of Health of Cambodia has announced a new confirmed case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
The 19-year-old male, from Kandal Province, developed symptoms on 28 November and initially sought medical attention at a local health centre on 30 November.
The presence of the H5N1 virus was confirmed by the National Influenza Centre, the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, on 11 December.
The patient is currently hospitalised and a team led by the Ministry of Health is conducting field investigations into the source of his infection.
Contacts of the case are also being identified and provided with prophylaxis.
Of the 8 cases confirmed to date in Cambodia, 7 have been fatal.
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H5N1 Case Confirmed Near Phnom Pehn Cambodia Recombinomics Commentary 12:11
December 12, 2008
The patient became ill with fever, cough, muscle ache and sore throat on 28th November and sought medical attention at local health centres originally on 30th November and again on 2nd December. The patient was identified during surveillance for acute fever illness, a research study conducted in the province and confirmatory testing was done by the National Influenza Centre in Phnom Penh on 11th December.
The patient is currently being treated in Calmette hospital, Phnom Penh.
The above comments describe a confirmed H5N1 case (19M) in Cambodia near Phnom Pehn. Although all prior cases in Cambodia have been fatal, the last confirmed case was in May, 2007, so the relationship of that H5N1 to the current outbreak is unclear, Cambodia has not reported H5N1 in poultry recently.
However, there are five suspect cases in Thailand, on the border with Cambodia (see satellite map). This cluster is about 200 miles north of the confirmed case. Thailand did have a poultry outbreak last month, but that outbreak was in northern Thailand and involved clade 1.
Clade 2.3 (Fujian) has been reported in the area, and that clade has been responsible for most cases in southeast Asia as well as China.
Since the above patient developed symptoms two weeks ago, and there has been no mention of pneumonia, this may be a relatively mild case.
More information on H5N1 in birds in the region as well as the status of the cluster (one patient was from Cambodia) on the Thai/Cambodian border would be useful.
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Dec 12, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today reported that a 19-year-old man from Cambodia has been hospitalized with H5N1 avian influenza, the country's first case in nearly a year and a half.
The man, from Kandal province, got sick on Nov 28 and first sought care from his local health center 2 day later, according to the WHO report. He is now listed as Cambodia's eighth H5N1 case, of which seven have been fatal.
Sok Touch, head of the ministry's communicable diseases department, said the man is in stable condition in a hospital in Calmette, the provincial capital, Reuters reported today. Kandal province is in southern Cambodia, just south of Phnom Penh.
Presence of the H5N1 virus in the man's samples were confirmed yesterday by the National Influenza Centre at the Institut Pasteur in Phnom Penh, the WHO reported.
Officials from Cambodia's health ministry are investigating the source of the man's infection, according to the WHO report. Ly Sovann, a ministry bird flu expert, said the man became ill after handling a sick chicken at his home, the Associated Press reported today.
The health ministry is identifying his contacts and providing them with antiviral prophylaxis, the WHO said.
Cambodia's last H5N1 case was reported in April 2007 when a 13-year-old girl from Kampong Chang province died after poultry deaths were reported in her village and after eating a sick chicken, according to a previous report from the WHO.
The country's latest case raises the WHO's global H5N1 count to 390 cases and 246 deaths. See also:
Dec 12 WHO statement
Apr 10, 2007, WHO statement
WHO global H5N1 case count
Seng Sopheak, infected by H5N1, rests at Calmet hospital in Phnom Penh
13 Dec 2008
Source: Reuters
Seng Sopheak, infected by H5N1, rests at Calmet hospital in Phnom Penh December 13, 2008. The 19-year-old Cambodian who ate dead poultry has been confirmed with H5N1 bird flu, the country's first human case in more than 18 months, the World Health Organization (WHO) and government said on Friday.REUTERS/Stringer (CAMBODIA) REUTERS/STR, REUTERS
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Re: Bird flu case (human) detected in Cambodia
I think the right of privacy should be preserved even in Cambodia, and Press Agencies must ''cover'' facial characters of people involved in diseases at risk of stigma.
A series of pixels in face area would be better even for this unlucky patient.
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Having one's identy posted is not a good thing. If a pandemic hit, I wonder if the govt (or whomever) would try to convince those who had survived bf to donate blood for antibodies? Wasn't donated blood how a couple of the Chinese survived when they became sick?
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Nineteen-year-old man being treated for the H5N1 virus as local officials attempt to prevent any further spread of the deadly flu.
THE government over the weekend called on villagers in Kandal province to take precautions following a new outbreak of bird flu that infected a 19-year-old man in Cheung Koeub commune last week.
The outbreak occurred in Kandal province's Kandal Steung district on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, and is the first confirmed infection of the deadly H5N1 virus in Cambodia this year, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation said in a joint statement.
Kao Phal, director of the Animal Health and Production Department at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said residents are currently being trained about how to prevent the spread of avian flu.
He said authorities are also urging everyone to report any dead or sick chickens to local officials immediately.
"We have cleaned villages by spraying protective medicine," Kao Phal told the Post. "Many residents raise chickens for family use, so they don't know much about bird flu."
Dr Sok Touch, director of the Communicable Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Health, said the infected man's condition is improving.
"He remains under examination by doctors and will not be allowed to leave the hospital yet," Sok Touch told the Post.
He said the patient, currently being treated at Calmette Hospital, began to show bird flu symptoms of fever, cough, muscle aches and a sore throat on November 28. Infection was confirmed on Thursday after testing at the National Influenza Center in Phnom Penh.
"The disease has not threatened his life because we treated it in time. The Ministry of Health is currently looking for other people who might have fever or cough, or who have had contact with dead poultry in the area," he said.
Lotfi Allal, chief technical adviser for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, said teams are investigating the area but have not yet found the source of the infection.
"Our work is not yet finished. We have to target the farmers around the area," he said, adding that information from the infected man does not correspond with reports from area residents on how and when the infection occurred.
The Japanese embassy in Phnom Penh announced in a statement that it would provide Cambodia with more than 12,000 courses of Tamiflu antiviral medication and protective gear for up to 35,000 people to assist in efforts to combat the spread of the virus.
"Prevention and containment of pandemic influenza outbreaks is a common challenge in East Asia," said the statement, issued on Friday.
"This disease is preventable," Kao Phal said. "The important thing is to prevent the transmission from chicken to human."
The latest infection is the eighth confirmed case of the avian flu in Cambodia. The previous seven cases died.
He said the patient, currently being treated at Calmette Hospital, began to show bird flu symptoms of fever, cough, muscle aches and a sore throat on November 28. Infection was confirmed on Thursday after testing at the National Influenza Center in Phnom Penh.
H5N1 Confirmed Near Phnom Penh Cambodia Recombinomics Commentary 11:50
December 15, 2008
THE government over the weekend called on villagers in Kandal province to take precautions following a new outbreak of bird flu that infected a 19-year-old man in Cheung Koeub commune last week.
The outbreak occurred in Kandal province's Kandal Steung district on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, and is the first confirmed infection of the deadly H5N1 virus in Cambodia this year, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation said in a joint statement.
He said the patient, currently being treated at Calmette Hospital, began to show bird flu symptoms of fever, cough, muscle aches and a sore throat on November 28. Infection was confirmed on Thursday after testing at the National Influenza Center in Phnom Penh.
"The disease has not threatened his life because we treated it in time.
The above comments confirm H5N1 in poultry on the outskirts of Phnom Penh (see updated map), where a human case (19M) was recently confirmed. The ProMED report on the patient indicated he developed symptoms on November 28 and was seen at a local clinic on November 30 and October 2. The symptoms were a fever, sore throat, and muscle aches.
Since there was no reported H5N1 in poultry at the time, and the last H5N1 case in Cambodia was in June, 2007, the likelihood that the patient was promptly treated with oseltamivir is remote. The H5N1 link was discovered on December 11 through a screening program of high fever cases.
Thus, the H5N1 infected patient had an upper respiratory infection (URI) much like the symptoms of patients in Assam, raising concerns of the spread of mild H5N1 in Cambodia and India, in the absence of testing.
Information on the treatment of the recovering patient in Cambodia as well as testing of surveyed patients in Assam, India would be useful.
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Nearly one hundred people living in the immediate vicinity of Cambodia's first confirmed human case of the H5N1 virus in over a year have been tested as authorities scramble to determine the extent of the latest outbreak.
Blood samples from people who had contact with the 19-year-old man diagnosed with avian influenza have so far revealed no signs of the disease, a health official said.
The 19-year-old is the Kingdom's eighth known case of bird flu, and all previous cases have been fatal. Though the disease has killed fewer than 30 people worldwide this year, the threat lies in the flu's potential to mutate into a strain transferrable between humans that could set off a lethal global pandemic.
According to Sok Touch, the director of the Communicable Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Health, 99 villagers from Kandal and Kampong Speu provinces have been tested and, so far, no new cases have been found. Not all 99 blood samples, however, have been processed.
Kao Phal, director of the Animal Health and Production Department at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said Tuesday that they have collected 76 ducks, chicken and geese from the two provinces for testing and expect results to be ready later this week.
"We will take immediate action to destroy the birds if bird flu is found," he said.
According to Kao Phal, authorities have educated villagers throughout the country about how to avoid avian influenza by providing booklets and leaflets to villagers.
"We know that villagers understand how to protect themselves from bird flu, but still people get infected," he said.
December 16, 2008
At least 50 villagers have tested negative for avian influenza in a suburb of Phnom Penh, following at least one case last week.
Of 90 villagers tested and consulted in Kandal Steung district, Kandal province, 50 have passed a blood test, said Ly Sovann, deputy director of the communicable disease control department of the Ministry of Health.
“We need 10 more days to be sure of the result on 40 people among 90 villagers,” he said.
Ministry of Health officials are investigating the area following the exposure of one case of a 19-year-old Nov. 28. The victim, Teng Sopheak, is still recovering in Calmette hospital.
Avian influenza, carried in wild and domestic birds by the H5N1 virus, has symptoms that include fever, cough, muscle ache and sore throat. It can be deadly to humans, killing seven Cambodians since 2005, and authorities worry it will mutate into a more communicable form.
17 Dec 2008
The Ministry of Health of Cambodia has announced a new confirmed case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
The 19-year-old male, from Kandal Province, developed symptoms on 28 November and initially sought medical attention at a local health centre on 30 November.
The presence of the H5N1 virus was confirmed by the National Influenza Centre, the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, on 11 December. The patient is currently hospitalised and a team led by the Ministry of Health is conducting field investigations into the source of his infection. Contacts of the case are also being identified and provided with prophylaxis.
Of the 8 cases confirmed to date in Cambodia, 7 have been fatal.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia began culling poultry near its capital on Wednesday, officials said, five days after a young man from the area was confirmed with H5N1 bird flu by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the government.
Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun told Reuters on Wednesday he had ordered a three-month ban on poultry transportation from the province of Kandal, 50 km (30 miles) south of Phnom Penh, after tests confirmed it was hit by the deadly virus.
The Health Ministry said in a statement last week the 19-year-old man, the eighth person in Cambodia to have contracted bird flu since its first case in 2005, was in stable condition in the capital's Calmette hospital.
The patient fell ill on Nov. 28 but was only confirmed as having bird flu on Dec 11, a Health Ministry-WHO statement said.
All seven of Cambodia's previous human cases have died.
Chan Sarun said ministry officials were also investigating in the province of Kampong Speu, 60 km west of Kandal, after reports of dead chickens and ducks.
Since H5N1 resurfaced in Asia in 2003 it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, according to the WHO.
Experts fear the constantly mutating H5N1 virus could change into a form easily transmitted from person to person and potentially kill millions worldwide.
(Phnom Penh hearing) in the face of newly found cases of bird flu, the Ministry of Health to do a few days ago and is home province of La province, about 100 people living in the patients live in the surrounding area residents a blood test to find out the bird flu virus . Blood test results showed that none of them were infected.
According to the Phnom Penh Post reported, said an official of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Health with the 19-year-old bird flu patients contact the owner to carry out blood tests, the results have not found a person infected with avian influenza virus in sight.
Ministry of Health to control infectious diseases, the Director of Song Du said that the stem and pull the province is the home province, about 100 people after carrying out a blood test to identify bird flu, but has not been found to be infected with bird flu.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Department of Animal Health Department director of the items with high Pan said that the department has been doing for Latin America and is home provinces of chickens, ducks and geese for a total of 75 test will be the outcome of next week. He said "If there are any signs of avian influenza virus, we will take immediate measures to destroy."
He said that in order to do a good job of guarding against avian flu, the department issued to local residents through leaflets and brochures to raise their awareness to prevent bird flu.
Another hearing: Secretary of State for the Ministry of Health and Hospital secret Gan Tai-hing told reporters that in mind, due to the current bird flu hospital for observation while the 19-year-old young men in good condition. He pointed out that patients must be hospitalized for observation a few days, there is no problem to be determined later allowed to go home.
(Li-sheng, Huang set-ray)
(A) Agriculture Minister Shi-Lun had been issued on the 16th to deal with bird flu, the first 591 documents. Contents of the document pointed out that the provincial government to determine dry La La is dry when the rural county south edge of the River Festival Cambodia - Indonesia Friendship Center for the incidence of bird flu source region, the requirements under the Ministry of Agriculture's Bureau of production and treatment must take the following actions in order to The total in the fight against bird flu:
1, in accordance with the provisions of killing all poultry in the region;
2, to the above-mentioned areas as the center for the three-kilometer radius of the circle inside the area to prohibit the sale, purchase and transport various types of birds, 30 days must be followed and research the source of bird flu. And above for the center, 10 km radius of the need to monitor the activities of various types of birds.
Official also pointed out that the ban on all types of birds feeding in the region until the new documents issued in order to allow the resumption of feeding birds. Official said that contrary to the provisions of this document must be punished in accordance with the law.
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PHNOM PENH, Dec 17, 2008 (AFP) - The Cambodian government has banned all poultry from an area on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh in a bid to contain a bird flu outbreak that infected one man, officials said Wednesday. Cambodia's ministry of agriculture has destroyed 326 birds since last week and have now warned that any poultry found within a three kilometer (two-mile) radius of the H5N1 virus outbreak in Kandal province will also be killed. "Our experts have carefully taken control of the area and looked into the issues very closely," Kao Phal, director of the ministry's animal department, told AFP. He said a government ban on selling or transporting poultry in the area would last 30 days. "We are educating the residents to love their lives rather than keep going on with their dangerous businesses."
Officials said that residents were cooperating with the ban as staff from the agriculture and health ministries investigated the outbreak. "We will continue to search for suspected cases for the next 10 days around the area," the ministry of health's Ly Sovann said.
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Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Posted Date: 18 December 2008
PHNOM PENH - A 19-YEAR-OLD Cambodian man has survived the H5N1 bird flu virus which has killed seven other people in the poor South-east 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,' Mr 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 south of Phnom Penh, after tests confirmed it was hit by the deadly virus.
The young man, the eighth person in Cambodia to have contracted bird flu since its first case in 2005, fell ill on Nov 28 but was only confirmed as having bird flu on Dec 11.
All seven of Cambodia's previous human cases have died.
Since H5N1 resurfaced in Asia in 2003 it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, according to the WHO. Experts fear the constantly mutating H5N1 virus could change into a form easily transmitted from person to person and potentially kill millions worldwide. -- REUTERS
Information received on 25/12/2008 from Dr Kao Phal, Director, Department of Animal Health and Production, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Phnom Penh 3, Cambodia
§ Summary
Report type Immediate notification
Start date 16/12/2008
Date of first confirmation of the event 16/12/2008
Report date 25/12/2008
Date submitted to OIE 25/12/2008
Reason for notification Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence 20/05/2007
Causal agent Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus Serotype H5N1
Nature of diagnosis Suspicion, Laboratory (basic)
This event pertains to a defined zone within the country
§ New outbreaks
Summary of outbreaks: Total outbreaks: 1
* Outbreak Location and Affected population - KANDAL (Kraing Chek village, Deumrus commune, Kandal Steung) :
The outbreak affected backyard poultry. Among these there are 40 ducks and 80 chickens that died. Total number of culling is 344 heads (75 ducks, 265 chickens, 2 geese and 2 turkey).
* Removed from the susceptible population through death, destruction and/or slaughter
§ Epidemiology
Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection Unknown or inconclusive
§ Control measures
Measures applied Stamping out
Quarantine
Movement control inside the country
Zoning
Disinfection of infected premises/establishment(s)
No vaccination
No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied No other measures
§ Diagnostic test results
Laboratory name and type National Veterinary Research Institute (NaVRI) (National laboratory)
Tests and results: Species - Test - Test date - Result
* Birds - inoculation test - 16/12/2008 - Positive
* Birds - real-time reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RRT-PCR) - 16/12/2008 - Positive
§ Future Reporting
The event is continuing. Weekly follow-up reports will be submitted.
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