Batheay district
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.
Batheay
ស្រុកបាធាយ | |
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District (srok) | |
Batheay | |
| Coordinates: 11°59′46″N 104°56′40″E | |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Province | Kampong Cham |
| Communes | 12 |
| Villages | 80 |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Mr. Yin Kim Horn |
| Population (1998) | |
| • Total | 90,920 |
| Time zone | +7 |
| Geocode | 0301 |
In August 2006, Batheay district was the site of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus commonly known as "avian influenza" or "bird flu". 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.