sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
Cambodia was one of the first countries in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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lace w:st="on">Southeast Asia</st1lace> to experience AHI infection. The first case of AHI in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Cambodia</st1lace></st1:country-region> was reported on December 2003, and the first wave of the outbreak during January to May 2004 had a severe impact on smallholder farmers who raise the majority of the country's poultry under subsistence conditions and on small-scale commercial poultry farms. AHI cases emerged again in late 2004 and early 2005, and four human cases (all of which were fatal) were reported in 2005. There has been one confirmed outbreak among chicken, ducks and fighting cocks in February 2006, and this case was quickly contained (about 2500 birds were killed by disease or culling during the February 2006 outbreak). One additional human death due to contamination with the AHI virus was confirmed in 2007. The repeated outbreaks and associated loss of human life and livelihoods highlight the country's inadequate disease surveillance system and limited capacity to control the disease..."
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ffice:smarttags" /><st1lace w:st="on">Southeast Asia</st1lace> to experience AHI infection. The first case of AHI in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Cambodia</st1lace></st1:country-region> was reported on December 2003, and the first wave of the outbreak during January to May 2004 had a severe impact on smallholder farmers who raise the majority of the country's poultry under subsistence conditions and on small-scale commercial poultry farms. AHI cases emerged again in late 2004 and early 2005, and four human cases (all of which were fatal) were reported in 2005. There has been one confirmed outbreak among chicken, ducks and fighting cocks in February 2006, and this case was quickly contained (about 2500 birds were killed by disease or culling during the February 2006 outbreak). One additional human death due to contamination with the AHI virus was confirmed in 2007. The repeated outbreaks and associated loss of human life and livelihoods highlight the country's inadequate disease surveillance system and limited capacity to control the disease..."http://www-wds.worldbank.org/extern...161525&searchMenuPK=64187283&theSitePK=523679