Health Minister Chheang Ra has issued a directive to authorities in border provinces, urging close monitoring of cross-border zones to help prevent the spread of mpox and other viral diseases, including H5N1 avian influenza and anthrax.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has issued an urgent call for regional cooperation to address the rising threat of avian influenza in Asia and the Pacific.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that the Palestinian Authority will reconsider bilateral relations with the United States.
The Ministry of Health on February 12, 2024, issued a press release on the case of bird flu (H5N1) in a 16-year-old boy living in Orussey commune, Kratie city, Kratie province.
A 69-year-old man from northwest Cambodia’s Siem Reap province has been confirmed for H5N1 human avian influenza, becoming the second case of this year, the country’s Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday.
Two more persons have been diagnosed with H5N1 avian flu, a 69-year-old man residing in Prey Chrouk commune, Puok district, Siem Reap province, and a three-year-old boy in Prek Poun commune, Kampong Trabek district, Prey Veng province.
The Ministry of Health in Cambodia has notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of two confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) in the country.
Spokesperson for the Cambodian Ministry of Health Or Vandine said on Friday that the two human cases of the H5N1 avian influenza in Prey Veng province last week were “not human-to-human transmission” cases.
The Ministry of Health has issued a statement completely rejecting the release of false and inaccurate information on the H5N1 bird flu case found in Prey Veng province recently that human-to-human transmission.
Two cases of bird flu in Cambodia, in a girl and her father, were not spread from one to the other.
Viet Nam is facing a critical threat of human-to-human avian influenza virus transmission, the Ministry of Health has warned, after two human infections were reported in Cambodia.
The father of an 11-year-old girl who died from the H5N1 avian influenza has been discharged from hospital after testing negative for the virus for three times, the communicable disease control department under Cambodia’s Ministry of Health said in a news release on Wednesday.
Bird flu has been creeping slowly closer to home since the outbreak started in October 2021.
The risk of bird flu spreading in humans is low at the moment – but it doesn’t mean it will necessarily stay that way, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
A bird flu strain that claimed the life of a schoolgirl in Cambodia has evolved to better infect human cells, in a worrying sign.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday donated 3,000 doses of Tamiflu (Oseltamivir), an antiviral drug to prevent the bird flu from spreading in the country.
The risk to general public from avian influenza A (H5N1) in Cambodia remains low despite two human cases of the virus were detected recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement late Sunday.
There is no cause for alarm over the H5N1 situation in the country with the Ministry of Health saying that the situation is under “good control”.
On 23 February 2023, the Cambodia International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) reported one confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus to WHO.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Sunday required all provinces and cities in Vietnam to prevent the smuggling of poultry into the country to curb the spread of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus after Cambodia, which borders Vietnam, reported its first H5N1 bird flu death earlier this week.
The Ministry of Health said yesterday it has discovered for the first time in nearly 10 years a fatal case caused by Avian influenza H5N1, also known as bird flu.
The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday said that the more than 500 storks which died in Boeng Sne Tuol Porntaley, Prey Veng province, in Ba Phnom district’s Batheay commune since March 17 were due to avian influenza virus (HPAIV) of subtype H5N1.
Increase of number of inspections in bordering provinces with Vietnam to prevent a bird flu outbreak in the Kingdom.
H5N1 bird flu is currently spreading in southern Vietnam.
An H5N1 bird flu outbreak has hit Vietnam’s southern Long An province.
Tboung Khmum provincial officials are warning villagers to be cautious and aware that bird flu could be transmitted to humans.
An outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza is confirmed in Ba Phnom district and the transport of birds are now prohibited.
Authorities suspect that a new case of bird flu has emerged in Mondulkiri.
Mondulkiri provincial authorities on Thursday announced that there was a suspected outbreak of bird flu, or H5N1, in Keo Sima district after more than 60 chickens became sick last week. Sok Kheang, the chief of…
Agriculture Ministry officials sprayed anti-viral disinfectant at livestock breeding farms nearly 40,000 times in 2017.
