Cambodia reported A/H1N1 case reaches 591

PHNOM PENH, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia said Monday that the deadly disease A/H1N1 has reached 591, an increase of 31 cases since early report made in February that recorded with 560 cases.

Ly Sovann, deputy director of the communicable disease control department of Ministry of Health said as of the 26th week of 2010, the record showed 591 cases of A/H1N1, but the number of deaths remains at six since the outbreak last year.

Of all cases have happened in 15 out of 24 provinces and cities across the nation, he said.

The 15 provinces and a city are Phnom Penh, Kandal, Kompong Speu, Takeo, Svay Rieng, Prey Veng, Kompong Cham, Mondulkiri, Banteay Meanchey, Kompong Thom, Udor Meanchey, Battambang, Kampot, Siem Reap and Kompong Chhnang.

Since February this year, Cambodia has conducted vaccination of more than 1 million dozes of new vaccine donated by World Health Organization.

Since the outbreak of the A/H1N1 in June 2009, six deaths were recorded in Cambodia.

Cambodia records 31 cases of flu A/H1N1

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Health Minister Mum Bun Heng said on Tuesday that the Cambodia's flu A/H1N1 cases have increased to 31 after five people were confirmed positive of the flu in the country on Aug. 31.

"The five people are the latest cases in the country and they all are Khmer," Bun Heng told reporters at a ceremony of receiving a new thermal scanner from Singapore.

"They all are being treated by our doctors," Mum said, adding that "so far nobody died of the flu in the kingdom."

"We have strengthened our existing system to track the suspected people of the flu," he said. The new thermal scanner will be equipped at Phnom Penh International Airport and the old one at the airport will be transferred to install at the Poipet Checkpoint bordering on Thailand.

"We decided to install there because many tourists and travelers are crossing the land border everyday from Thailand into Cambodia. We have to follow them," he noted. "So far, we have had 14 Khmer infecting with the flu," he said, adding that the new thermal scanner is worth over 10,000 U.S. dollars and it is a charitable donation from Singaporean government.

Tan Yee Woan, Singaporean ambassador to Cambodia, said that "the globalization push people to travel a lot and they are facing with infecting the flu and we need to prevent it."

Sok Touch, director of communicable control department of Health Ministry, also expressed his concern, saying that "the second wave of infecting the flu is making us concern about the trend of spread. We have to take measures for the next season."

Increase in swine flu cases for Cambodia

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
ABC Radio Australia

Cambodian health officials have recorded five more cases of swine flu, bringing the country's total number of confirmed cases to 14.

The Phnom Penh Post reports four of the five latest cases were American citizens, living and working in Cambodia.

They tested positive for the H1N1 virus after returning from a visit to Bangkok.

Cambodia has not yet recorded a fatality from swine flu, and all of the country's H1N1 cases have been imported so far.

But a World Health Organisation spokesman in Phnom Penh says domestic transmission of the virus is inevitable.