Canadian Teenager Is Hospitalized in Country's First Bird Flu Case
Public-health officials in Canada said over the weekend that a teenager had been hospitalized with H5 avian influenza, or bird flu, the latest in a series of potentially worrying developments tied to the virus.
Details about the case were scant. It isn't clear whether the virus that infected the teenager is closely related to the virus that has infected dozens of U.S. farmworkers this year.
If the teenager was hospitalized due to severe symptoms, that would represent a new and distinctly troubling development in the trajectory...
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