{"id":545305,"date":"2026-07-12T02:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545305\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:25:09","slug":"cambodia-reports-5th-h5n1-avian-influenza-case-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545305\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia reports 5th H5N1 avian influenza case of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cambodia Ministry of Health reports today on a human H5N1 avian influenza case in a 9-month-old girl from Prek Takong village in the Phnom Penh Meanchey district.<\/p>\n

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This is the country\u2019s fifth confirmed case this year.<\/p>\n

Medical teams are providing intensive care to the patient, according to a ministry statement.<\/p>\n

Health officials are investigating the source of the girl\u2019s infection and working to determine whether there are infected animals in her community.<\/p>\n

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Officials are collecting samples from people who had contact with the patient, while close contacts are being given Tamiflu as a precaution under Cambodia\u2019s standard response protocol for H5N1 cases.<\/p>\n

The previous case<\/a> was reported in April in Svay Rieng province, near the border with Vietnam, and involved a 66-year-old woman who was hospitalized in intensive care.<\/p>\n

If you like the reporting on Outbreak News Today, please consider a paid subscription for $5\/month or $30 a year. Help support the cause of this niche journalism. It is appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cambodia Ministry of Health reports today on a human H5N1 avian influenza case in a 9-month-old girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-545305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}