Public-health officials are now comparing the genetic features of the teen’s case with that of a Louisiana patient whose death this week was the first reported to be attributed to H5N1 in the U.S.
The British Columbia teenager who tested positive for avian influenza, and who was the first human case acquired in Canada , was discharged on Tuesday after a two-month stay at the BC Children’s Hospital.
The family of the B.C. teen, in a statement provided by the BC Children’s Hospital on Thursday, asked for privacy as their daughter continues to heal and the family works to rebuild their lives after the traumatic ordeal. “This has been a life changing experience for our daughter and for our family, and we are grateful to have her home with us,” they said.into her case was closed in late November despite public-health officials having been unable to determine the source of her infection.
An analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in late December, identified low-frequency mutations in the hemagglutinin gene of a sample sequenced from the Louisiana patient that were not found in virus sequences from poultry samples collected on the patient’s property. The finding suggested that changes “emerged in the patient after infection.”
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