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5-year-old Cambodian girl has become the country's fifth bird flu fatality this
year.
Cambodia's Health Ministry and the World
Health Organization announced Friday that the girl had a history of contact
with poultry in her village in southeastern Takeo province, where there was
evidence of recent deaths among poultry.
Only one of Cambodia's six victims this year
of the virus, also called avian influenza, or H5N1, has survived the disease.
The country reported three cases in 2012, all fatal.
WHO statistics issued Feb. 1 show Cambodia as
the only country so far reporting human cases of the disease in 2013.
The U.N. agency says bird flu has killed 365
other people worldwide since surfacing in 2003. Most human cases have been
linked to contact with infected poultry.
AP
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