The death came amid heightened concerns over a wave of bird flu that has spread through much of the world since late 2021, posing a potential public health risk. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, normally spreads between sick poultry but can sometimes spread from poultry to humans. “Thankfully, human infections are still rare, and the likelihood of onward human-to-human transmission very low. But this virus keeps cropping up in various mammals and this could potentially increase the possibility of further human infections. According to the World Health Organisation, there were 56 bird flu cases in humans in Cambodia from 2003 until 2014, and 37 of them were fatal.
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