A second case of human contamination with avian flu has been recorded in Cambodia, the country’s health authorities announced on Friday February 24, specifying that it was the father of an eleven-year-old girl who died two days earlier. Wednesday. These two cases are the first recorded in humans in Cambodia since 2014.
The girl, from a remote village in the province of Prey Veng (Southeast), fell ill on February 16 with symptoms of fever, cough and dry throat. She died less than a week later at a children’s hospital in the capital, Phnom Penh, the kingdom’s first bird flu-related death in nine years.
Twelve people, who had had contact with the girl, were tested on Thursday and one result came back “positive for H5N1“, said the Ministry of Health. “This is (his) father“: 49 years old, he has no symptoms, the ministry said. Cambodia has launched research to detect “source of infection“.