Malaria cases up 30,000 in 2009
There were over 80,000 malaria cases resulting in 300 deaths in the Cambodia last year, compared with 50,000 cases and 200 deaths in 2008, the Phnom Penh Post quoted Dr. Duong Socheat, director of the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM) as saying.
The increase in the malaria cases was caused by the [...]
Found 10,000 ducks dead in Takeo
Agricultural authorities from Ministry of Agriculture were testing samples of 10,000 dead ducks raised in Koh Adeth district in Takeo province near the Vietnam border but they suspected that those ducks died from avian influenza.
Even though, authorities have yet to identify the cause of death. All ducks were sprayed with a chemical to kill viruses [...]
Coronary artery disease to affect cambodia
Coronary artery disease results from a narrowing of the blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart and is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Western societies and has cause one out of every five deaths in the US since 2002.
Coronary artery disease is caused by build-up of fatty materiel called [...]
Illegal pharmacies to be closed
The Phnom Penh Post reported that nine illegal pharmacies will be faced with a closure because of refusal to stop selling fake medicines across the country. And 100 other unlicensed shops in Phnom Penh will be shut down.
Three-day seminar, funded by French embassy, between five Asian countries – Cambodia, China, Laos, Singapore, and Vietnam – [...]
Swine flu infections reached 101 in Cambodia
The number of people affected by A(H1N1) influenza cases in Cambodia has reached to 101 by at the end of September 2009. It is expected that the number will be continuing increasing in the coming months.
“The number of people affected by the virus – more commonly known as swine flu – was growing, and that [...]
Cambodia’s 17th person contracted swine flu
After testing positive for the swine flu A(H1N1) virus on Friday, A 22-year-old Irish women have been found the infliction of A(H1N1) influenza virus. She traveled to Cambodia from Vietnam and then she was in Siem Reap for testing virus.
Ly Sovann, deputy director of the Communicable Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Health, was [...]