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Cambodia reports death of 11-year-old girl from bird flu

Experts from Cambodia's Communicable Disease Control Department educate villagers about H5N1 virus threats, in Prey Veng province, in a picture released on Thursday. (Photo by Handout / Cambodia's Communicable Disease Control Department / AFP)

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia reported an 11-year-old girl from a province east of the capital Phnom Penh died after being infected by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu.

It was the first known human infection with the H5N1 strain in the Southeast Asian country since 2014, Minister of Health Mam Bunheng said in a statement on Thursday.

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