New Delhi, July 3 -- Cambodia has reported a fresh case of human Highly Pathogenic Human Influenza, H5N1 avian flu, on July 2, 2025, the health ministry has reported. The infection was diagnosed in a 36-year-old woman.

This marks the 11th case in the country in 2025 and seventh in June alone. Six people succumbed to the infection this year.

The reports indicate a surge of H5N1 cases in Cambodia since 2023, before which the Southeast Asian country was free of the infection for almost a decade.

Officials said that the woman lives in the same province, Siem Reap, located in the central part of the country where the previous three cases were reported, but in a different village.

Her village, however, is about two miles away from the resi...