Re: BC Canada patient with H5

On 11/12/2024 10:00 AM, RonO wrote:

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