A former cancer biologist, Victoria Forster now works as a patient engagement specialist in Toronto, Canada.
A teenager in British Columbia, Canada has been hospitalized with a presumed case of H5N1 bird flu , the first detected human case in the country from the recent outbreak. The individual is presumed to have contracted the virus, also called avian flu or avian influenza, from exposure to wild birds, but testing is ongoing to confirm this.
All close contacts of the infected individual are being contacted and investigations are underway to figure out how the teenager was infected. Canada has been testing wild birds, finding strains of the virus similar to those circulating in both parts of the U.S. and Japan, but this is the first time the virus has been found in a human.
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