{"id":7010,"date":"2024-07-10T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:44:57","slug":"cambodia-detects-another-h5n1-bird-flu-case-in-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/10\/cambodia-detects-another-h5n1-bird-flu-case-in-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia detects another H5N1 bird flu case in human"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.vietnamplus.vn\/cambodia-detects-another-h5n1-bird-flu-case-in-human-post289832.vnp\">Vietnam News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cambodian Ministry of Health on July 8 announced that another human case of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed on a 5-year-old girl in Takeo province, bringing the number of the infections to seven since the start of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ministry, the patient has a fever and is the cousin of a 3-year-old boy, who tested positive for the virus on July 5. The two children live in the same house in Kiri Vong district&#8217;s Pou village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 10 days before the girl fell ill, chickens and ducks in the village had died and the patient&#8217;s family cooked them for food, and the patient had direct contact with the dead chickens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the seven human cases of H5N1 bird flu so far this year were six children, one of whom died, and an adult. All patients reportedly had a history of recent exposure to sick or dead poultry prior to their illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H5N1 influenza is a flu that normally spreads between sick poultry, but it can sometimes spread from poultry to human, and its symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, and severe respiratory illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said bird flu still poses a threat to people&#8217;s health, particularly children, urging people not to eat ill or dead poultry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2003 to date, there were 69 cases of human infection with H5N1 influenza, including 42 deaths in the Southeast Asian country, according to the ministry.\/.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam News The Cambodian Ministry of Health on July 8 announced that another human case of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed on a 5-year-old girl in Takeo province, bringing the number of the infections to seven since the start of 2024. According to the ministry, the patient has a fever and is the cousin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7011,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}