Some of you may have seen the tragic story from Cambodia of a young lady and her father, both dead after contracting an H5 HPAI. (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza)
With the recent reports of a new variant that is capable of mammal-to-mammal transmission, there have been concerns that their (especially her) death could have been the result of human-to-human transmission.
A public health lab has been able to sequence viral samples from both deceased patients. The HPAI was from a clade that is endemic to Cambodia, and is unrelated to the clade that is spreading among and killing pinnipeds and ferrets at various places around the globe.
The unfortunate father and daughter appear to have both contracted it from handling local chickens, not via human-to-human transmission.