The death of a 2-year-old girl has marked Cambodia’s second bird flu fatality in a week and third for this year. Until 2023, Cambodia did not have any bird flu deaths since 2014.
A 2-year-old girl is the second person in Cambodia to die of bird flu this week, and the third this year, the country’s Health Ministry has announced. Laboratory tests confirmed that the girl, who lived in the southeastern province of Prey Veng, died Monday with H5N1 avian influenza, the ministry said in a statement. The ministry had announced on Sunday that a 50-year-old man in neighboring Svay Rieng province also had died from bird flu.
Chhuon Srey Mao, the 22-year-old mother of the dead girl, told The Associated Press by phone from Chhmar Lort village that her daughter fell sick on Oct. 1 with symptoms of coughing, high temperature and vomiting. The girl received treatment from a local physician for five days, but was sent on Oct. 5 to the capital Phnom Penh for advanced care when her condition worsened. She died at the children’s hospital.
have no idea why my daughter would contract bird flu because she never touched or ate the dead chickens,' Chhuon Srey Mao said, 'But I presume that she may have become infected with the virus when she played in the yard, as she normally did, where the chickens had been.' She said the five surviving members of her family are in good health, but she is worried about them.
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