PHNOM PENH: An 11-year-old Cambodian boy has died of bird flu, a hospital official said Monday, the impoverished kingdom's third confirmed fatality - all children - from the illness this year.
"We tried to do our best... but it was too late and we could not do anything to save him," he told AFP.
Another doctor said the boy had eaten infected poultry.
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