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Mon Puthy, a 3 year old girl from Kampong Speu province, about 45 km west of the capital, was infected with avian influenza and died on Tuesday, said a joint statement of Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) released on Friday.

The girl is the first case detected in Cambodia in 2006, and brings the total number of avian influenza cases in Cambodia to five, with four cases reported during 2005.

The girl became ill with a fever on the March 14 and her condition deteriorated rapidly on March 20 when she was taken to the hospital in Phnom Penh, where she died on Tuesday, according to the statement.

Samples from the girl tested positive for influenza A/H5N1 virus at the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh, it announced. The girl was known to have contact with sick and dead chickens and this was the most likely source of exposure. it said.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu remains difficult for humans to catch, but health experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmitted among people, setting off a human pandemic.

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