Cambodian News

Screening for dyslipidemia and coronary heart disease should began at the age of 20 and continue every five years, a doctor said Thursday.
Tests will look for cardiovascular risk problems as well as cholesterol counts between LDL-C, or “bad cholesterol,” and HDL-C, or “good cholesterol,” said Dr. Taing Tek Hong, as a guest on “Hello VOA.”
Dyslipidemia [...]

Scores of families in Ang Snuol district, Kandal province, earn a living through contract poultry farming for a single private company, and many of them say they feel secure in their income and health of the birds.
“We don’t have to worry about the loss or about the bird flu virus,” said Pang Ith, a 35-year-old [...]

Health officials have tested at least 140 people for the avian influenza, following the discovery of the disease in one man late last year, but all of them have tested negative, officials said.
Authorities had feared they were exposed to the virus by eating or handling contaminated poultry in Doeum Russ commune, Kandal Stung district, Kandal [...]

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A 19-year old Cambodian man has survived the H5N1 bird flu virus which has killed seven other people in the poor Southeast Asian nation since 2005, a health ministry official said on Sunday.
The youth, who became infected after eating dead poultry, was discharged from a Phnom Penh hospital on Saturday after [...]

Officials have confirmed the presence of the H5N1 “bird flu” virus in poultry in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, following the infection of one man last month.
Officials said Wednesday they will have to disinfect the area destroy hundreds of birds in an effort to contain the spread of the virus, which experts fear could mutate [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) — Cambodian poultry vendors feared the latest case of bird flu would once again hit demand for chickens and ducks, just weeks before the Chinese New Year when they traditionally make their biggest sales, national media reported Tuesday.
Vendors in Phnom Penh told the Cambodia Daily that [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Cambodia began culling poultry near its capital on Wednesday, officials said, five days after a young man from the area was confirmed with H5N1 bird flu by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the government.
Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun told Reuters on Wednesday he had ordered a three-month ban on [...]

Authorities in several Asian countries are working to contain new outbreaks of bird flu.
Cambodia has begun slaughtering poultry in a district south of the capital, Phnom Penh, where a 19-year-old man last week tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. The agriculture ministry also ordered a 30-day ban on selling or transporting [...]

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia began culling poultry near its capital on Wednesday, officials said, five days after a young man from the area was confirmed with H5N1 bird flu by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the government.
Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun told Reuters on Wednesday he had ordered a three-month ban on poultry [...]

Japan announced Thursday nearly $1 million in grants to help improve Cambodian agriculture, health and demining operations.
Of that, more than $165,000 would go toward the rehabilitation of reservoirs and irrigation in Kandal and Takeo provinces; more than $87,000 toward the construction of a science laboratory in Prey Veng province’s Regional Teacher Training Center; more than [...]