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> There have been no positive cases of Bird Flu detected in the country following the death of a 12-year-old girl in Prey Veng.

> The Health Ministry said she tested positive for H5N1. This marked the first case of death from bird flu since 2014 and the 57th case in the Kingdom.

> The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the test result of four members of the infected girl's family, including her father, and 25 other people who have been in contact with her, came back negative for H5N1. The latest laboratory tests at Pasteur Institute showed that none of them, including the father, was infected, said Ly Sovann, head of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Hey look, it's good news for once

That title made me think they sacrificed her to cleanse the area of bird flu.

blood for the bird god!

Flu for the flu throne!

So, I guess the flu case was just from direct contact with a sick bird, rather then human to human transmission?

Apparently she lived with 20+ birds in her home so that’s probably a safe bet.

I mean the first news reporting on the bird flu outbreak in Cambodia came from a weird source that really looked unreliable and it somehow got tens of thousands of upvotes.

Yet, when I tried to find anything about it on other major news sources in multiple languages and from multiple countries, I didn’t manage to find even a single article. No statement from the WHO. Nothing anywhere.

So just from that I knew it was a normal outbreak that had no human to human transmission and it was 100% clickbait.

Trust me, if we had human to human transmission of the bird flu, the scientific community would be utterly freaking the fuck out and it would be all over the news immediately.

Yes, it was also confirmed to be the old strain of bird flu (the one that had caused infections in ~2015 I think?), which means the strain that's been making headlines for infecting mammals (minks, seals, bears, etc) has not spilled over into humans which is great news

This seems fishy. A few hours ago they said there was at least 12 who had also caught it.

Pasteur Institute is the only specialized medical testing facility in the country. The previous reports were preliminary insights dismissed upon actual investigation.

I believe those were the number of contacts who were being tested. I believe all 12 (or 11/12 if her father was in that cohort) were negative. Reported towards the end of the week?

That was a bad translation. They were testing 12 contacts for cases of transmission, not that they had 12 cases.

You are right!

And people here on reddit were crying about how this will be the end of the world.

Yeah the AMC stock hysteria was great insight also..

Yeah people do this in rural Cambodia to protect their birds from theft or death during the night. Envision a tiny molded wooden cabin with two floors and a metal roosting ladder going up the stairs into the common sleeping area. You're sleeping with the chickens, the cats, and the half starved kittens and mosquitos along with other family members under a mosquito net and limited electricity. I don't recommend it to anyone.

Theres a 60 day incubation period and its spreading across the world /s

That is good news, I remember the panic on this sub a few days ago, when we thought we had another pandemic on our hands. I guess I can look forward to a normal March Madness basketball month next month, LOL!

I think it’s worth considering that the scientific community has learned from the mistakes made during the early days of covid. Science reporting has long been known to lose a lot in translation, but I think there’s a fine line between keeping people informed and putting out incomplete information that will be turned into scare pieces.

Multiple other articles that have confirmed her father has it, as well. Those weren't bad translations.

The scientific community learned from its mistakes… but did the media learn?

question the source since there are several stories that the child’s father also infected

Phew. Asshole unclenched.

“CHICKEN RAPE!!!”

That’s the appropriate headline for that picture. Anyone unacquainted with the sex lives of tightly enclosed barnyard fowl would naturally assume this is a picture of the diseased birds responsible for the death of a little girl in Cambodia. The truth is, this is what the scientific community labels as a ‘Cambodian Cluster Cluck Fuck’. Actually, this is a perfectly average yet typically overcrowded bunch of oversexed future McNuggets. Next time, ask for extra “special sauce”. It’s white! In the back mid range of the photo, off center to the left, there appears to be a fully feathered, stout rooster biding his time until he mounts another Gladys Cravitz looking creature to pull out enough feathers until it can get a firm enough hold for a righteous rooster money shot. 5 minutes later,it all starts again! Or it could be one helluva mite infestation. But, I’m gonna go with chicken rape.