Another human case of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed on a five-year-old girl from southern Cambodia’s Takeo province, bringing the number of the cases to seven since the start of 2024, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday (July 8).
“The patient has a fever and is the cousin of a three-year-old boy, who tested positive for the virus on July 5,” the statement said, adding that the two victims live in the same house in Kiri Vong district’s Pou village.
“About 10 days before the girl fell ill, chickens and ducks in the village had died and the patient’s family cooked them for food, and the patient had direct contact with the dead chickens,” the statement said.
