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Another girl dies of H5N1 bird flu after eating dead chicken
Chea Sokny
August 21, 2024
Phnom Penh: Another girl died after direct contact with birds and ate after the family cooked without knowing that the dead chickens were infected with H5N1 bird flu (H5N1). Ms. Sai Chanthy reports.
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Another 15-year-old girl died of H5N1 bird flu on August 20, 2024 in Po Minh village, Kanhchiech commune, Kanhchiech district, Prey Veng province. This was confirmed by the National Institute of Public Health and the Institut Pasteur on August 20, 2024.
Based on the above, the girl came in direct contact with the dead bird and ate it after the family cooked it. According to the report, after eating, the girl also started to have fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue, difficulty breathing and fainting, which is difficult for doctors to save.
However, according to the interrogation, about 5 days before the girl started to get sick in the village, there were many dead chickens and ducks, the house of the girl's relatives had dead chickens and distributed to the girl's family to cook, and that time the girl Touched the dead chicken as well.
Around this case, the emergency response team of the Ministry of Health at the national and sub-national levels has been cooperating with the working group of the relevant ministries and institutions to continue to search for sources of transmission on both animals and humans and continue to search for suspected cases and affected people to prevent the spread. In the community. At the same time, the team distributed Tamiflu to the affected people and conducted a health education campaign in the village to prevent the disease.
Women's Radio tried to contact the relevant officials for more information, but they were busy. Separately, Dr. Seng Panharith, director of the Prey Veng Provincial Health Department, did not answer many questions with Women's Radio, but he reported that a total of 16 people were sampled and placed under surveillance. There were six girls' family members, two neighbors, a private doctor, two referral doctors and five provincial medical staff.
Please be informed that the Ministry of Health has reminded people to be careful about bird flu because H5N1 bird flu continues to pose a health threat. The Ministry states that if you have a fever, cough, runny nose or difficulty breathing and have been in contact with sick or dead chickens during the 14 days and before the onset of symptoms, do not go to crowded cities and seek consultation. And timely medical check-ups at nearby health facilities.
As a precautionary measure, wash your hands often with soap and water before eating and after touching birds, and keep children away from birds and birds away from the environment. Do not eat sick or dead birds. All birds made for eating must be well cooked.
Recall that in 2023, health authorities found that bird flu killed a 2-year-old girl in Prey Veng and a 50-year-old man in Svay Rieng. Then, on November 23, 2023, the disease occurred in a 21-year-old woman in Dang Tong district, Kampot province.
According to the director of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Ministry of Health, from 2004 to 2024, Cambodia found nearly 60 cases of H5N1 bird flu, resulting in a total of 38 deaths.
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