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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: BC Canada patient with H5
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:48:58 -0600
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On 11/12/2024 10:00 AM, RonO wrote:
> https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canada-probes- 
> suspected-avian-flu-infection-hospitalized-teen
> 
> They do not know if this patient was infected by the dairy virus.  There 
> have been wild bird cases of H5N1 (not dairy?) in recent months, but the 
> dairy variant has been identified in Washington.  Washington refuses to 
> test their dairies to determine if they have infected herds even after 
> poultry workers were infected.  In all other cases the poultry farms got 
> the virus from nearby dairies.  It is a dairy epidemic.  Utah just 
> confirmed this by finding 8 infected dairies in the same county that the 
> poultry farm was located, but Washington and Oregon are refusing to test 
> their herds.
> 
> Ron Okimoto
> 
The LA times claims that the teen is in critical condition.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-11-13/teenager-infected-with-h5n1-bird-flu-in-critical-condition

They have sequenced the virus and it is not the dairy strain B3.13.  It 
is strain D1.1 of the H5N1 virus infecting wild migratory birds.

Ron Okimoto