B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the teenager in Children’s Hospital with Canada’s first presumptive case of avian flu is in critical condition. Henry said the teen was admitted late on Friday and their condition varied over the weekend but that as of Tuesday they had taken a turn for the worst.
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I wish for her to recover well. The gif is rather because I expect governments to fuck up again because coralling idiots to do the right thing is like shepherding cats.
Is it transmissible from human-to-human? Is this an indication that it might become more transmissible? Isn’t that the general direction of evolution for flu viruses, becoming more transmissible?