first case in humans

British Columbia’s western provincial health director, Dr. Bonnie Henry, said at a news conference Tuesday that The teenager tested positive for the infection and has severe breathing problems. The patient is being treatedwas initially treated with Tamiflu, an antiviral drug.

Henry added that preliminary test results carried out on the teenager, who has not been identified, indicate infection with the H5 avian influenza virus.

Emergency appointment

Young man On November 2, he went to the ambulance service, but was discharged. and sent to your home. After a few days, his condition worsened and he was finally admitted to a children’s hospital in Vancouver last Friday.

Canadian health authoritiesAbout 40 people from the patient’s family environment were tested, no other cases were identified bird flu.

According to Dr. Henry, the young man was not in direct contact with any birds immediately before he developed symptoms although this was the case with other animals that also tested negative for avian influenza.

In 2014, a Canadian citizen died of bird flu after returning from China, where he contracted the infection. Several dozen human cases of avian influenza have been reported in the United States. always associated with contact with cows or poultry on farms.

Until May this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) had counted 889 confirmed cases of avian influenza since 2003, of which 463 had caused death in infected individuals.