The case of a positive man tested in the virus after the death of his sick daughter had alerted the health authorities. The virus is sometimes transmitted in humans, most often by direct contact with contaminated breeding poultry.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
For the past twenty years, 868 cases of the H5N1 virus in humans have been confirmed by WHO, and 457 people died. But the principle of a transmission between individuals remains for the time being to be confirmed. In Cambodia, the health authorities dismissed the hypothesis of a transmission of the avian flu between human beings, in the case of a positive tested man at the virus after the death of his sick daughter.
The country had recorded on February 23, its first death in nine years linked to avian flu: an 11-year-old girl from the rural province of Prey Veng (Southeast). She was positive at H5N1, a highly contagious strain in birds, then her father was also declared positive.
Their case has caused concerns, in the middle of an avian flu epidemic in many regions of the world, which, in several cases, required the slaughter of the tens of millions of birds.
“An investigation has shown that they contracted the virus in contact with birds in the village. No transmission between father and daughter has been found,” the government agency of the government agency said on Tuesday February 28 Sanitary monitoring. The man, aged 49, who had no symptoms, healed the disease and left the hospital, according to the press release.
The World Health Organization (WHO) spoke of a “worrying situation” on Friday, while recalling that the risk in humans remained low. The virus can be transmitted in humans most often by direct contact with contaminated farming poultry.