Batheay district

Batheay
ស្រុកបាធាយ
District (srok)
Batheay is located in Cambodia
Batheay
Batheay
Coordinates: 11°59′46″N 104°56′40″E / 11.99611°N 104.94444°E / 11.99611; 104.94444
Country Cambodia
ProvinceKampong Cham
Communes12
Villages80
Government
 • GovernorMr. Yin Kim Horn
Population
 (1998)[1]
 • Total90,920
Time zone+7
Geocode0301
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Batheay (Khmer: ស្រុកបាធាយ, lit. 'The Defeat of Tou Phi's Mythical Buffalo') is a district (srok) of Kampong Cham province, Cambodia. The district capital is Ph'av town. The town is located on National Highway 6 around 64 kilometres east of the provincial capital at Kampong Cham city and 60 kilometres north of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. The district lies at the junction between two major waterways, the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap.[2]

In August 2006, Batheay district was the site of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus commonly known as "avian influenza" or "bird flu".[3] The outbreak was detected in live and dead ducks taken from a farm in the district and the Ministry of Agriculture culled 700 birds to prevent further outbreaks. Authorities suspect that ducks smuggled from Prey Veng Province where an earlier outbreak was confirmed, to nearby Tbong Khmum district, were responsible for this the new outbreak. Overall, more than 3000 ducks were slaughtered in Kampong Cham to prevent further infections. No human infections were reported.[4]

  1. ^ General Population Census of Cambodia, 1998: Village Gazetteer. National Institute of Statistics. February 2000. pp. 32–33.
  2. ^ Total Road Atlas of Cambodia 2006 (3rd ed.). Total Cambodge. 2006. pp. 44–45.
  3. ^ "Cambodia hit by two new bird flu outbreaks". Med India. August 21, 2006. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  4. ^ "New bird flu outbreak hits Cambodian ducks". Reuters. September 5, 2006. Retrieved 2009-01-26.