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Cambodia reports significant rise in measles

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Global health officials are reporting a significant increase in measles cases in Cambodia during the first quarter of the year. This is up from 44 cases during the same period in 2019. At least one death...

Cambodia: Puffer fish poisoning kills two in Kampong Speu province

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Two men from Kampong Speu province, Cambodia died after they ingested poisonous puffer fish Monday, according to a Phnom Penh Post report. In addition to the two fatalities, two women and one man from...

Novel coronavirus case reported in Sihanoukville, Cambodia

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Cambodia Ministry of Health reported in a press release (see below) the first confirmed case of novel coronavirus. The case was detected Monday in a 60-year-old...

Cambodia reports dramatic increase in dengue in 2019

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Many countries in southeast Asia are reporting increases in dengue fever in 2019 and Cambodia is no exception. Through the end of September, some 56,000 dengue fever...

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Dengue fever: Space-based early warning system spreads from Vietnam to six more South-East Asian countries

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HR Wallingford is expanding its space-based early warning system for dengue fever from Vietnam to six other countries following an extension to its grant by the UK Space Agency. Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia,...

African swine fever in Asia: One year since first outbreak

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews One year ago this month, China agriculture officials reported the first African swine fever (ASF) outbreak in Asia in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. About a month...

African swine fever in Vietnam: 62 provinces and cities affected, 3.7 million pigs culled

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By NewsDesk    @infectiousdiseasenews The African swine fever (ASF) outbreak in Vietnam has spread significantly since the first outbreak was reported on 19 February 2019. The Food and Agriculture Organization...

Asia: Multi-drug resistant malaria strain spreads in Vietnam, Laos and parts of Thailand

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Genomic surveillance has revealed that malaria resistance to two first-line antimalarial drugs has spread rapidly from Cambodia to neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia. Researchers from the Wellcome...

Strongyloides stercoralis: 30 percent of Cambodians tested positive in study

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Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted threadworm that is endemic in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have conducted...

Dengue in Asia: Numbers high as rainy season begins

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Two weeks ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning for that dengue fever cases in the region is expected to rise with the arrival of rainy season, after already...