PHNOM PENH: A two-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, becoming the country's fourth confirmed fatality - all children - from the deadly virus this year, health authorities said Monday.
Tests confirmed she had contracted the H5N1 virus, it said, adding the girl had direct contact with dead chickens in a village where most of the poultry had perished over the last few weeks.
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