Via The Cambodia Daily, an excellent report by Mech Dara and Lauren Crothers: Takeo Girl Fifth to Die From H5N1. Click through for the full report. Excerpt:
Chan Ros, the latest victim’s mother, said on Friday that her daughter had touched a dead chicken and had also eaten its meat before falling ill.
“She got a fever and diarrhea, so I went and bought medicine from a private doctor. But it did not work, so I took her to a referral hospital,” she said. “I am so sad to lose my daughter, because she was my youngest child.”
The girl was cremated on Friday morning in a dress she had been planning to wear to an upcoming wedding, her mother said.
“When I touch her belongings, I start to cry because I have lost her forever.”
Reached by telephone, Dr. Denis Laurent, deputy director of Kantha Bopha Hospital, said the girl was the second person to die from the same district. A 15-year-old girl from Prey Kabbas died at the hospital on January 21.
“This is the first time in Kantha Bopha that we have had four cases [of H5N1] in less than two weeks,” Dr. Laurent added.
