{"id":52902,"date":"2023-02-25T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/24\/who-says-h5n1-avian-flu-cases-in-humans-worrying-after-girls-death"},"modified":"2023-02-25T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:12:09","slug":"who-says-avian-flu-cases-in-humans-worrying-after-girls-death-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52902","title":{"rendered":"WHO says avian flu cases in humans \u2018worrying\u2019 after girl\u2019s death in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child died and father tested positive for H5N1, prompting fears of possible person-to-person transmission<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of two cases of bird flu within the same family in Cambodia has highlighted the concern over potential human-to-human spread of the virus, although experts have stressed the risk remains low.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Cambodian authorities reported an 11-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/24\/bird-flu-11-year-old-girl-in-cambodia-dies-after-being-infected\">girl from Prey Veng province had died from H5N1<\/a><strong>,<\/strong> with subsequent testing of 12 of her contacts revealing that her father also had the virus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/24\/who-says-h5n1-avian-flu-cases-in-humans-worrying-after-girls-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child died and father tested positive for H5N1, prompting fears of possible person-to-person transmissionThe discovery of two cases of bird flu within the same family in Cambodia has highlighted the concern over potential human-to-human spread of the v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,2205,337,361,2684,346,914,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-bird-flu","category-birds","category-cambodia","category-farm-animals","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52913,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52902\/revisions\/52913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}