Via CIDRAP, Lisa Schnirring sums up what we know so far: Cambodia reports three H5N1 illnesses, two fatal. Click through for the full report and relevant links. Excerpt:
Cambodia's health ministry today announced three new H5N1 avian influenza cases, two of them fatal and all located in the southwestern part of the country with exposure to poultry, according to a joint statement from the ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The cases are the world's first to surface in 2013 and push the number of H5N1 infections in Cambodia since 2005 to 24, which includes 21 deaths.
Rapid response teams are identifying and monitoring the patients' close contacts, exploring if there were any epidemiologic links between the three cases, and conducting educational campaigns about the virus in villages, according to the statement.
