{"id":9865,"date":"2025-07-09T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:20:28","slug":"cambodia-reports-surge-in-human-infections-with-avian-influenza-ah5n1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/09\/cambodia-reports-surge-in-human-infections-with-avian-influenza-ah5n1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia Reports Surge in Human Infections with Avian Influenza A(H5N1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalbiodefense.com\/2025\/07\/08\/cambodia-reports-surge-in-human-infections-with-avian-influenza-ah5n1\/\">Global Biodefense<\/a> Unusual spike in human infections highlights ongoing risks at the human-animal interface and the need for cross-sectoral public health action. Between January and July 2025, Cambodian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2025-DON575\">health authorities reported<\/a>&nbsp;11 laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1), including six fatalities. Notably, seven of these cases occurred in June alone\u2014an unusual monthly spike. These recent infections are part of a broader resurgence that began in February 2023, after nearly a decade without reported human cases in the country. Since that re-emergence, Cambodia has confirmed 27 human infections,&nbsp;<strong>with a case fatality ratio (CFR) of 44%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recurrence of H5N1 in humans underscores persistent vulnerabilities at the human-animal interface and raises critical concerns about surveillance, biosecurity, and pandemic preparedness in regions where the virus remains endemic in animal populations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Biodefense Unusual spike in human infections highlights ongoing risks at the human-animal interface and the need for cross-sectoral public health action. Between January and July 2025, Cambodian&nbsp;health authorities reported&nbsp;11 laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1), including six fatalities. Notably, seven of these cases occurred in June alone\u2014an unusual monthly spike. These [&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-9865","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\/9865","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=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9866,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/9866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}