1. @WHO has issued an update on the #H5N1 situation in Cambodia. It confirms what has come out over the past few days. 2 confirmed cases, an 11 yo girl who died & her father who remains asymptomatic. 11 other contacts tested negative. A couple of noteworthy points....
2. The #H5N1 virus was from a strain of H5 viruses that has been circulating in southeast Asia since 2014. This is a different strain from the one that has swept across the Americas in the past couple of years. Different strain could equal slightly different behavior.
3. The father remains asymptomatic. Given he and his daughter would have shared contact with infected birds, he could be a true case (and lucky). I do wonder whether he was truly infected or whether the swabbing just picked up virus in his nose.
4. So, what to make of the Cambodian cases? If they'd happened a yr ago, they'd have been reported by Cambodia & @WHO, but the wider world probably wouldn't have blinked. But the media is on high alert for #H5N1 right now β which isn't a bad thing β so they got tons of attention.
5. Cambodia has sporadic #H5N1 cases. These two bring to 58 the country's total since 2003. @WHO says more are likely to happen sporadically, because of virus in poultry. The situation is unsettling, but unchanged, it seems. who.int/emergencies/diβ¦
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