Cambodia reports 11-year-old boy is country's fourth bird flu death this year
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — An 11-year-old boy in Cambodia died from bird flu , the country's fourth victim of four confirmed cases of the infection this year, the Health Ministry announced Wednesday.
The ministry issued a statement saying laboratory tests from the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia confirmed the boy, who lived in a village in the western province of Kampong Speu, died Tuesday of H5N1 avian influenza, as the infection is formally called.
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