Bird flu: 11-year-old girl in Cambodia dies after being infected Case is the country’s first known human infection with H5N1 strain since 2014, health minister say

An 11- time-old girl in Cambodia has  failed after being infected by a strain of avian influenza, generally known as  raspberry flu, the government says.   It was the first known  mortal infection with the H5N1 strain in the country since 2014, the health minister, Mam Bunheng, said in a statement on Thursday.

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The girl from Prey Veng  fiefdom, east of the capital, Phnom Penh, was diagnosed with  raspberry flu after falling sick with a high fever and cough on 16 February, the statement said.   When her condition deteriorated, she was transferred to the  public children’s sanitarium in Phnom Penh for treatment, but  failed on Wednesday, the health ministry said.

Since early last time,  raspberry flu has destroyed  granges around the world, leading to the deaths of  further than 200 million  catcalls because of the  complaint or mass  rejects, the World Organisation for Animal Health said  lately.   The World Health Organisation  before this month noted the spread to mammals of H5N1 influenza, but said the  threat to humans remained low.

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H5N1 had spread among flesh and wild  catcalls for 25 times, the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a briefing, but recent reports of infections in mink, otters and sealions “ need to be covered  nearly ”.   For the moment, WHO assesses the  threat to humans as low, and since H5N1 first  surfaced in 1996 there has only been rare andnon-sustained transmission of the strain to and between humans. The girl lived near a conservation area, and health  officers have taken samples from a dead  raspberry there.

Humans who have been infected with  raspberry flu in the  history have  generally worked on flesh  granges or been in close contact with infected  catcalls.   Cambodian health authorities  prompted people in the south- east Asian country not to handle dead or sick  creatures and  catcalls, and to  communicate  a hotline if anyone suspected they had been infected by the  complaint.

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