The unnamed 11-year-old was the Southeast Asian nation s first case of the avian disease in nearly a decade. She was from a rural southeastern province from Cambodia.
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After an 11-year-old girl died from bird flu in Cambodia, health officials urged parents to keep their children away from poultry. It is the country's first known human H5N1 infection since 2014.