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On Thursday, Cambodian authorities reported the death of an 11-year-old girl from the H5N1 virus and began testing 12 of her contacts. “So far, it is too early to know if it’s human-to-human transmission or exposure to the same environmental conditions,” Briand said from Geneva. “Since H5N1 first emerged in 1996, we have only seen rare and non-sustained transmission of H5N1 to and between humans. Bird flu is a highly infectious strain of avian influenza A virus that can cause severe respiratory disease and death in birds. Several companies that produce seasonal flu vaccines can also make pandemic flu vaccines, it was reported.
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