Hanoi (VNA) – The Cambodian government has demanded local authorities along border provinces to step up efforts in monitoring and preventing the import of monkeypox (mpox) and other viral diseases such as H5N1 bird flu and anthrax.
In a document to provincial governors along the border provinces, Health Minister Chheang Ra requested localities to strengthen quarantine measures to promptly detect and prevent cases of infectious diseases from entering Cambodia from other countries. He advised provincial governors to deploy quarantine officers at the country's border gates
According to the minister, Cambodia has so far recorded a total of 20 mpox cases with no death, and 72 human cases of H5N1 bird flu with 43 deaths. There have been infections of anthrax in neighbouring countries and the region./.
