Cambodia´s 10th person in 2013, who has suffered from severe Avian Influenza H5N1 since last Tuesday, was saved after nine-day intensive care in the capital´s Kantha Bopha Hospital, the hospital´s president, Dr. Beat Richner said Monday.

A six-year-old boy from Southwestern Kampot was admitted to the hospital on March 31 for severe pneumonia, and he was tested positive for H5N1 at the Instituts Pasteur three days later. "The boy suffering from severe bird flu could be saved,"Dr. Richner said in a note posted on his Facebook account.

He also posted the boy´s pictures showing the evolution of the disease, from the start when the boy was in coma. "The X-ray of the lungs is showing an improvement. On Monday, the child is no more needing oxygen and can start to eat little by little,"he said.

In an interview with Xinhua on Saturday, Dr. Sok Touch, director of Communicable Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Health, said the country is concerned over the worst outbreak of the virus this year.

Since the start of the year, the country recorded 10 human cases of H5N1 virus, killing eight people, he said, up from only three deaths for the whole year of 2012. "We´d like to appeal to people to be extra-vigilant over the virus -- do not touch or eat dead or sick poultry," he said, adding that the ministry alone cannot stop the spread so that it needs greater participation from the public to prevent and eliminate the strain of H5N1 virus.

He said so far, the virus has spread only from infected poultry to humans and there is no sign of spreading from person to person.

The disease was first identified in Cambodia in 2004. To date, the country has recorded 31 human cases of the virus with 27 deaths.