{"id":7779,"date":"2024-12-31T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2025-01-01T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:43:13","slug":"bc-teen-no-longer-critical-with-avian-flu-has-been-taken-off-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bc-teen-no-longer-critical-with-avian-flu-has-been-taken-off-oxygen\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. teen no longer critical with avian flu, has been taken off oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re learning more about the B.C. teenager who became the first critically ill pediatric patient with avian influenza in North America earlier this fall, including some details about her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The new information was published in a case summary as a letter to the editor of the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i> on Tuesday, signed by multiple doctors from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, BC Children\u2019s Hospital and Public Health Agency of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the publication of the letter, B.C.\u2019s Ministry of Health had refused to provide updates on the teen\u2019s status or their case \u201cunless there is a need from a public health perspective to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re learning more about the B.C. teenager who became the first critically ill pediatric patient with avian influenza in North America earlier this fall, including some details about her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The new information was published in a case summary as a letter to the editor of the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i> on Tuesday, signed by multiple doctors from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, BC Children\u2019s Hospital and Public Health Agency of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the publication of the letter, B.C.\u2019s Ministry of Health had refused to provide updates on the teen\u2019s status or their case \u201cunless there is a need from a public health perspective to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bc-teen-no-longer-critical-with-avian-flu-has-been-taken-off-oxygen\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B.C. teen no longer critical with avian flu, has been taken off oxygen<\/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],"class_list":["post-7779","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","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","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=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}