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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  Cambodia tests possible third victim for bird flu virus Fri Mar 25 2005 05:40:26 ET Cambodia was awaiting results Friday of tests on an 18-year-old man suspected of carrying the bird flu virus who would be the third case found in the kingdom if confirmed, health officials said. "We took another sample (from a suspected victim) to be tested at the Pasteur Institute" in Phnom Penh, health minister Nuth Sokhom told reporters. "We are monitoring the case." Yim Voeunthan, secretary of state at the ministry of agriculture, said that the man, whom other officials identified as Hon Sopheap, was from the village of Keatha Vong Leu in Kampot province's Banteay Meas district. "The teenager had killed sick chickens and eaten them," he said. He said that Cambodia's second bird flu victim Meas Ran, who was from Tram Sasor village in the same district, had been staying at Keatha Vong Leu when he fell ill. The 28-year-old died in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. The first victim reported in Cambodia, which borders both Vietnam and Thailand where a total of 47 people have died of the deadly H5N1 virus, was a woman aged 25 who died in Vietnam in January after seeking treatment there. Developing... |
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