Two English boys test positive to A/H1N1 flu in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed two more cases of A/H1N1 virus after two English boys have tested positive to the flu in the Kingdom.

"We have just tested positive for the flu on two English boys who are in 12 and 13-year-old and now the two brothers were quarantined and are being treated at Calmet Hospital," said Sok Touch, director of communicable diseases control of Health Ministry.

"They are not in serious condition, and hope to recover soon," he added.

Their parents also are being observed for the flu, he said. He urged all people to protect themselves from infection of the disease.

"With the two boys, Cambodia now has 26 cases of confirmed A/H1N1 flu," Sok Touch said. Cambodia has no one die of the virus.

Australian Woman Found With H1N1 Virus

By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
08 July 2009

Cambodian has confirmed its eighth case of H1N1, sometimes called swine flu, with a young Australian woman testing positive for the illness, health authorities said Wednesday.

Ly Sovann, deputy department of communicable disease control for the Ministry of Health, said the 15-year-old girl had flown in from Bangkok on Thai Airways and was red-flagged by scanners at Phnom Penh International Airport.

“She was taken to the local hospital, Calmette, on Tuesday night, for a health checkup,” he said, adding that her health had improved.

Authorities are now looking for people who may have been sitting near her on the plane.

“We’ve already searched their homes and the hotels where they are staying, but until now we have not found such cases,” he said.

The H1N1 virus, which spread from Mexico earlier this year but appears to be less deadly than initially feared, appeared in Cambodia in June, when four American students tested positive. In subsequent days, two Cambodians and one Filipino also tested positive.

The World Health Organization has declared a global epidemic of the disease, which authorities had first attempted to contain. Worldwide, the illness has killed more than 250 people, but it has infected tens of thousands.

Cambodia searches for three US citizens exposed to Swine Flu

Fri, 22 May 2009
DPA

Phnom Penh - Cambodian health authorities said Friday they were searching for three US citizens who arrived in Phnom Penh Sunday after sharing a flight from the US to South Korea with a person later diagnosed with swine flu. "The Ministry of Health received official communication from the Korean Embassy that three individuals were on the same flight from USA to Korea with a passenger who was later confirmed to have Influenza A (H1N1)," a joint Health Ministry and World Health Organization
(WHO) statement said.

"The three individuals subsequently flew on a separate flight to Phnom Penh on Sunday 17 May 2009," the statement said. "At the time of their arrival to Cambodia, the three passengers did not display influenza symptoms."

Sok Touch, director of the Communicable Diseases Control Department at the Ministry of Health, said all three were US citizens and that two, a man and a woman, were believed be in the southern province of Kampot.

"We have no idea where the other person is, but we are working with provincial authorities to find this person and offer testing," he said. "But it is important to note that there are still no cases of H1N1 in Cambodia."

Sok Touch said Cambodia was prepared for an outbreak of the potentially fatal illness, which WHO statistics show has infected 11,034 people worldwide and killed 86.