An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from the country’s first known
human case of bird flu in nine years, health authorities have confirmed.The girl from the rural Prey Veng province was diagnosed with the H5N1
virus on Wednesday. She had fallen ill a week earlier with a high fever,
cough and sore throat.
human case of bird flu in nine years, health authorities have confirmed.The girl from the rural Prey Veng province was diagnosed with the H5N1
virus on Wednesday. She had fallen ill a week earlier with a high fever,
cough and sore throat.
Cambodia’s health ministry said her father had also tested positive and 11
others had been tested. On Thursday, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said it
was the first known human infection of the H5N1 strain in Cambodia since
2014.
The girl had been taken from her village to the children’s hospital in
capital Phnom Penh – but died shortly after her diagnosis.
Cambodia last recorded a bird flu case in 2014. In the decade before, it
recorded 56 human cases of H5N1 infection, 37 of which were fatal.
