PHNOM PENH: An 11-year-old boy died from bird flu in Cambodia’s fourth fatal case this year, the Health Ministry announced Wednesday. Several chickens and ducks near the boy’s house were found to have been sick and dying for a week before the child started feeling ill, the ministry said in a statement. “Despite the care and rescue efforts of the medical team, the child died” Tuesday at a hospital after arriving with a fever, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing, the ministry said. Tests from the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia confirmed the boy, who lived in a village in the western province of Kampong Speu, died of H5N1 avian influenza. A Health Ministry emergency response team has been working with local authorities to investigate the source of the village’s bird flu outbreak and respond with the…