Bird flu kills Cambodian woman
A Cambodian woman has died of bird flu, becoming the first confirmed victim infected outside Vietnam in an outbreak that has killed 13 people in the past month.
The 25-year-old woman died in a Vietnamese hospital and tests today confirmed she was infected with the H5N1 strain of the virus, said Phan Van Tu, a doctor at the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City.
