1st domestic case in Cambodia

Mam Bun Heng (left) said One Cambodian national and one Filipino traveller had tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus. --PHOTO: AP

The Straits Times
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June 27, 2009

PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA'S health minister on Saturday announced the country's first domestic case of swine flu, days after its first infections were reported among visiting American students.

One Cambodian national and one Filipino traveller had tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus, Mam Bun Heng told AFP, bringing the country's toll to six.

'(They) are now being taken good care of at hospital and are getting better,' he told AFP on Saturday.

'We are working hard to... prevent more domestic infections within our country,' he added.

Four US students on a school trip in Cambodia were confirmed this week as the country's first cases of the virus.

Globally, the World Health Organization says nearly 60,000 cases of the disease have now been recorded, with 263 deaths. -- AFP