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The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed earlier this week that a British Columbia teen has been hospitalized marking the nation's first domestically acquired human case of H5N1 avian influenza, otherwise known as the bird flu. Bird flu typically spreads from animal to animal, but has jumped to 46 humans in the U.S. this year, all of whom interacted with infected cows or poultry, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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