British Columbia has confirmed the first case of avian flu in a person.
It’s a teen in the lower Fraser Valley where there have been a number of recent outbreaks in commercial poultry flocks.
A statement from the office of the provincial health office said a teenager in the region covered by Fraser Health tested positive for bird flu, and the teen is currently getting treatment at BC Children’s Hospital.
The statement said the positive test was done by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, and samples are on their way to Winnipeg’s national microbiology lab for confirmatory testing.
There have been a number of people in the United States who work with dairy cattle and poultry who have been infected, but those cases have been mild.