Cambodia’s Front Line Against Bird Flu

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Khmer Times/Jonathan Cox

An outbreak of bird flu last week decimated two duck flocks in Siem Reap and Battambang, killing more than 2,000 birds in the first reported case of the disease since March last year.

As the number of sick birds continued to climb, the owners of the flocks called the district veterinary services. Armed with masks, gloves, and disinfectant spray, the team of animal health experts went to the infected farms, collected samples from the sick birds, and sent them back to the Veterinary Research Institute in Phnom Penh for testing. The tests turned up positive: the birds had the H5N1 strain of avian flu.

The quick response time kept the disease from spreading, though, and a week later no more cases of avian influenza have been reported.

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