BC Canada patient with H5

[RonO]

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canada-probes-suspected-avian-flu-infection-hospitalized-teen

They do not know if this patient was infected by the dairy virus. There
have been wild bird cases of H5N1 (not dairy?) in recent months, but the
dairy variant has been identified in Washington. Washington refuses to
test their dairies to determine if they have infected herds even after
poultry workers were infected. In all other cases the poultry farms got
the virus from nearby dairies. It is a dairy epidemic. Utah just
confirmed this by finding 8 infected dairies in the same county that the
poultry farm was located, but Washington and Oregon are refusing to test
their herds.

Ron Okimoto

[RonO]

Post by RonO
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canada-probes-
suspected-avian-flu-infection-hospitalized-teen
They do not know if this patient was infected by the dairy virus.  There
have been wild bird cases of H5N1 (not dairy?) in recent months, but the
dairy variant has been identified in Washington.  Washington refuses to
test their dairies to determine if they have infected herds even after
poultry workers were infected.  In all other cases the poultry farms got
the virus from nearby dairies.  It is a dairy epidemic.  Utah just
confirmed this by finding 8 infected dairies in the same county that the
poultry farm was located, but Washington and Oregon are refusing to test
their herds.
Ron Okimoto

The LA times claims that the teen is in critical condition.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-11-13/teenager-infected-with-h5n1-bird-flu-in-critical-condition

They have sequenced the virus and it is not the dairy strain B3.13. It
is strain D1.1 of the H5N1 virus infecting wild migratory birds.

Ron Okimoto