PHNOM PENH, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian government said Monday that malaria, one of the country's deadly diseases has caused nearly 300 deaths in Cambodia in 2009.
Duong Socheat, director of National Malaria Center said some 280 Cambodians died from malaria last year, a sharp increase from a year earlier that recorded only about 200.
He said the number of infection by the disease was also a big jump from more than 50,000 in 2008 to about 80,000 in 2009.
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