{"id":7480,"date":"2024-11-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:20:35","slug":"bird-flu-in-canada-may-have-mutated-to-become-more-transmissible-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bird-flu-in-canada-may-have-mutated-to-become-more-transmissible-to-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, Canada, may have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it more transmissible among people, early data shows \u2013 a warning of what the virus can do that is especially worrisome in countries such as the US where some H5N1 cases are not being detected.<\/p>\n<p>The US \u201cabsolutely\u201d is not testing and monitoring bird flu cases enough, which means scientists could miss mutated cases like these, said Richard Webby, a virologist at St Jude children\u2019s research hospital\u2019s department of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, Canada, may have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it more transmissible among people, early data shows \u2013 a warning of what the virus can do that is especially worrisome in countries such as the US where some H5N1 cases are not being detected.<\/p>\n<p>The US \u201cabsolutely\u201d is not testing and monitoring bird flu cases enough, which means scientists could miss mutated cases like these, said Richard Webby, a virologist at St Jude children\u2019s research hospital\u2019s department of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bird-flu-in-canada-may-have-mutated-to-become-more-transmissible-to-humans\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1007,1006,1009,83,96,1008,304,8,51],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-avian-flu","tag-avian-influenza","tag-bird-flu","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-h5n1","tag-outbreaks","tag-research","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7482,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}