PHNOM PENH: Cambodia reported about 7, 000 dengue fever cases in the first half of 2025, similar to the number of cases during the same period last year, a health official said on Thursday.
However, the death toll from the disease dropped to 15 during the January-June period this year from 23 in the same period last year, said Huy Rekol, director of the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control.
"All the patients who died so far this year were children, " he told Xinhua news agency.