{"id":3111,"date":"2024-11-11T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2024-11-11T08:32:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:32:43","slug":"3111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"First suspected case of H5 avian influenza in a native Canadian population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3112 aligncenter\" title=\"u21883174522353476283fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/u21883174522353476283fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG.jpg\" alt=\"u21883174522353476283fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG\" width=\"660\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/u21883174522353476283fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG.jpg 660w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/u21883174522353476283fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Columbia (BC) health authorities confirmed on 9 November the first suspected human case of H5 avian influenza infection in the province. This is the first time that a suspected human case of the virus has been detected in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The patient, a teenager, is being treated at the Columbia Children&#8217;s Hospital in Vancouver. Her sample tested positive for H5 avian influenza at the Provincial Center for Disease Control&#8217;s public health laboratory. Samples are pending confirmation by the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Local health authorities have initiated a public health investigation with a view to identifying the source of exposure and associated contacts. No other cases have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Federal public health officials are working with Columbia health officials to keep people safe, Health Canada Mark Hollander said via a social media account. Based on the available evidence, the risk to the public remains low. He added that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus among cases detected worldwide to date.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of October this year, Columbia Health and other relevant departments in poultry farms and wild birds in the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>To date, only one human case of avian influenza has been reported. In early 2014, a Canadian resident died of H5N1 infection after returning from abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia (BC) health authorities confirmed on 9 November the first suspected human case of H5 avian influenza infection in the province. This is the first time that a suspected human&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,262],"tags":[711,1040,1041],"views":376,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}