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Submitted by ctv_en_2 on Thu, 04/06/2006 - 09:20
Bird flu killed a 12-year-old boy in Cambodia's southeastern province of Prey Veng, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on April 5.

Sample tests showed that the boy, who died on April 4 during the night, was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus.

 

This is the sixth bird flu death in Cambodia so far and the second this year. Last month, a 3-year-old girl in Kampong Speu province, about 60km west of Phnom Penh, died of the disease.

 

Meanwhile, German authorities have confirmed the country's first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in domestic fowl in an outbreak on a poultry farm east of Leipzig, the Saxony state Social Affairs Ministry said on April 5.

 

The cull of the farm's entire flock of 10,000 geese, turkeys and chickens had already begun after some 20 birds were found dead earlier this week from what preliminary tests showed to be the H5 subtype of the virus.

VNA/CNN

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