The Cambodian government on Tuesday ordered to kill all the poultries and ban poultry trade within the surrounding area of Kraing Chek village, Kandal Steung district and Kandal province, where a 19-year-man was infected with bird flu last week.

Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries told the local people to cull out all kinds of poultries and temporarily forbad any buying, selling and transportation into or out of the bird flu outbreak location, according to a statement issued by the ministry.

The location will be under observation for 30 days in order to research the source of the bird flu outbreak and the experts from the ministry are monitoring the poultry movement within 10 km distance around zone, it added.

The 19-year-old man was the eighth person in Cambodia who was contracted with avian influenza since early 2005. He is now in good condition in hospital.

All the previous seven cases of human contraction of bird flu in Cambodia died. The seventh case occurred in April 2007.

(Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2008)