Dr. Chumteav Thom infected by Swine flu from her hubby?

The blue-clad lady squad: Dr. Chumteav Thom and Queen-Mother. Was Dr. Chumteav Thom infected by Swine flu from her hubby? (Photo: NorodomSihanouk.info)

Queen-Mother sent blessing to Dr. Chumteav Thom

19 July 2010
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

On 16 July 2010, Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk sent a well wishing letter from Beijing to express her concerns over the health condition of Dr. Chumteav Bun Rany Hun Xen, president of the Cambodian Red Cross. Queen-Mother also sent her wishes for the Dr. Chumteav Thom to recover from all her diseases. Queen-Mother’s letter stated: “I am very pleased to learn that Lok Chumteav Thom feels better from her disease. I was very concerned about the health of Lok Chumteav Thom. All the time, I kept on asking about the health status of Lok Chumteav Thom from Samdach Chaufa Veang Kong Sam Ol. I wish that Lok Chumteav Thom be cured from all diseases and that you may have good and strong health back in order to fulfill your noble duty for the nation and the people of Cambodia.” After receiving the well wishes letter from Queen-Mother, on 17 July, Dr. Chumteav Thom Bun Rany Hun Xen sent a thank you letter to Queen-Mother as well.

Officials hunt for Canadian man who may have H1N1: ministry

Thursday, 04 June 2009
Written by Sam Rith
The Phnom Penh Post

Man may have flown next to Taiwanese child confirmed with swine flu, says Health Ministry, which wants him to come forward for testing.

CAMBODIAN health officials said Wednesday that they are searching for a recently arrived Canadian man who may be infected with the influenza A(H1N1) virus, commonly known as swine flu.

"We have not found the Canadian man, as he did not fill in the form indicating where he will stay," said Dr Sok Touch, director of the Communicable Diseases Control Department at the Ministry of Health.

"We are continuing to look for him," he added.

The man, who arrived May 31 at Phnom Penh International Airport on a flight from Taiwan's Taoyuan International Airport, may have been exposed to the H1N1 strain of flu on his flight into Taiwan, officials say.

According to Taiwanese news agencies, an 8-year-old Taiwanese boy who arrived in the country from Texas in the United States, via Los Angeles, was diagnosed Monday morning with H1N1, a day after he arrived in Taiwan.

Sok Touch said officials were searching for the Canadian to give him a medical checkup because they believe the Canadian sat next to the infected child on the flight from the United States.

Thong Sophat, deputy director of Phnom Penh International Airport, confirmed Wednesday that all passengers from all flights were obliged to walk through a thermal scanner before clearing Cambodian customs.

He said the Canadian man had not been identified as having a fever by the machine. Several passengers had been detected as feverish, he said, but after testing were found not to be infected with swine flu.

Sok Touch said airport officials had distributed information forms with phone numbers to all passengers, and he hoped the Canadian would contact health officials if he becomes ill. Cambodia has not reported any cases of H1N1, he added.

Cambodia quarantines Japanese couple suspected of having swine flu

Mon, 25 May 2009
DPA

Phnom Penh - Cambodian health authorities said Monday they were waiting on test results for a Japanese couple who showed symptoms of swine flu after travelling by air from Vietnam to the northern town of Siem Reap. Bun Artha, director of civil aviation at Siem Reap International Airport, said the couple, a 24-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, was taken to hospital after thermal imaging equipment detected both had high temperatures as they exited a flight from Ho Chi Minh City.

"They arrived in Siem Reap on Sunday evening after spending four days in Vietnam and both were taken immediately to Siem Reap hospital," he said.

Em Bun, director of Siem Reap hospital, said the couple was placed in voluntary quarantine and doctors were waiting on test results to return from a pathology lab in the capital Phnom Penh.

"The couple reported that they had suffered food poisoning in Vietnam and had recovered from ordinary flu just before they left Japan," he said. "Phnom Penh is several hundred kilometers away, so it will take some time for the results to be confirmed and for us to know whether they have the H1N1 virus."

Health authorities on Sunday confirmed there were no cases of swine flu in Cambodia after test results came back negative for three US citizens exposed to the potentially deadly virus during a flight from the US to South Korea.

Cambodia finds three passengers traveling with A/H1N1 virus patient

PHNOM PENH, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian health authorities have found the three passengers who arrived here on the same flight with a woman who was later confirmed to have A/H1N1 virus, a health official here said on Saturday.

The three, all Cambodian-Americans, were found Friday, and one of the old man now stays in Battambang province while the two others, a father and his daughter, in Kampot province, according to Sok Touch, director of the epidemic disease department at the Ministry of Health.

"We have got their samples and sent to the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh for testing A/H1N1 virus. The results would be available later today," he told reporters, adding that "the three's health are normal with no influenza symptoms now."

Sok Touch said that the Health Ministry has not took isolation measure to them, but asked them to have a self-isolation, and not to visit relatives as well as go to the public places in the next seven days.

The three arrived in Phnom Penh from the United States via South Korean on May 17. A Vietnamese woman traveled with them on the same flight feel unwell and hospitalized at Incheon, South Korea, and later she was confirmed of the disease.

Three Potential H1N1 Flu Carries Sought

By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
22 May 2009

Cambodian health officials are looking for three US-Cambodians who were aboard a South Korean flight Sunday after one passenger who deplaned in Incheon was found carrying H1N1 flu.

Officials in Cambodia emphasized that the threat of infection was low, but were searching for the three, who they thought might be in Kampot province.

South Korea put out a warning Wednesday, saying the three had been among 93 on an Asiana Airlines flight from Seattle to Incheon, South Korea, before transiting for a Phnom Penh flight.

One woman from the first flight was quarantined in South Korea and confirmed to have the H1N1 virus, sometimes called swine flu.