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With B.C. teen sick in hospital with suspected chook flu, what ought to mother and father know?

Editorial Board Published November 11, 2024
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Dr. Anna Wolak, a household doctor in Vancouver, stated many mother and father are possible having flashbacks to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, regardless of this flu being a single case.

“So my main concern is the safety of our children,” she stated.

“As we go back to the crowded areas, to schools in general where children are packed in the classroom, what I am hoping is that over the summer and over the last few years of this, living with COVID, that the schools have updated their filtration, their purification and their ventilation systems.”

Wolak stated academics ought to nonetheless open home windows to ventilate the rooms and clear the air in crowded areas, serving to reduce children’ publicity to an airborne virus.

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The teenager stays in B.C.’s Youngsters’s Hospital and well being officers are assuring the general public they’re working to determine how the affected person acquired the an infection and who else they may have contacted.

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{The teenager} possible caught the virus from a chook or animal, the province stated in a press release over the weekend.

Wolak stated there are nonetheless different respiratory viruses going round and inspired mother and father and caregivers to ensure everybody’s vaccines are updated.

“I don’t know that we need to be panicked,” she added. “But it’s always good to just be concerned, like staying home when you’re sick … vaccinating and then making sure that ventilation is adequate for children who are immunocompromised.”

H5 chook flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is inflicting outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with a number of current human instances in U.S. dairy and poultry employees.

It’s an airborne virus and can’t be contracted from consuming eggs or rooster.

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“We’re now currently in wave six of that response,” he stated.

“The wave six started in B.C. this year in October and so far has infected 24 farms in the Fraser Valley.”

Bourque stated about six million birds have been euthanized since December 2021.

“Our effort is to try to control that disease in the animal population to prevent any further spread of it. In the domestic population, humans can be exposed to avian influenza from a sick or dead bird, whether that’s a domestic bird or wildlife bird. So those precautions should be taken when if you see a dead wild bird or any dead animal, actually and be careful doing that.”

Bourque stated each nation appears to be coping with chook flu at the moment and everybody ought to take precautions, whether or not they work on or dwell near a farm or not.

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