A toddler in Cambodia is severely sick after testing optimistic for H5N1 fowl flu, the well being ministry confirmed on Saturday, making it the nation’s sixth human case thus far this 12 months.
The three-year-old boy, from a village in Kiri Vong District in Takeo province, was hospitalized on Friday after falling sick with a fever, cough, tiredness and problem respiratory.
The well being ministry stated the boy remained within the intensive care unit on Saturday however his signs had been reportedly enhancing.
“In keeping with the investigation, about 10 days in the past, there was a useless hen within the village and it was taken house to eat, the place the boy touched and held the useless hen,” the well being ministry stated in an announcement.
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LINK: An inventory of all human circumstances of H5N1 fowl flu since 2021
It was not instantly identified which pressure was concerned nevertheless it’s seemingly clade 2.3.2.1c, an older variant which is endemic within the Asian nation, although no human circumstances had been reported between 2014 and 2023. Since then, 12 circumstances have been discovered, together with six this 12 months.
A more recent pressure of H5N1, clade 2.3.4.4b, has raised concern as a result of its world unfold and the rising variety of circumstances in mammals, together with an outbreak amongst dairy cows within the U.S. Solely a restricted variety of human circumstances have been reported thus far after contact with contaminated birds or cows.