{"id":7821,"date":"2025-01-09T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:47:36","slug":"b-c-teen-with-avian-flu-discharged-after-weeks-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/b-c-teen-with-avian-flu-discharged-after-weeks-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. teen with avian flu discharged after weeks in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BC Children\u2019s Hospital says a 13-year-old girl with avian flu was discharged Tuesday after weeks in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was taken to a pediatric intensive care unit with respiratory failure and pneumonia on Nov.&nbsp;8 and health officials said she tested positive for H5N1 a day later.<\/p>\n<p>A recent medical journal chronicled the teen\u2019s hospitalization in Vancouver, which involved tracheal intubation and supplemental oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>Her family says in a statement that the experience has been \u201clife-changing\u201d and that they are grateful to have their daughter home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Children\u2019s Hospital says a 13-year-old girl with avian flu was discharged Tuesday after weeks in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was taken to a pediatric intensive care unit with respiratory failure and pneumonia on Nov.&nbsp;8 and health officials said she tested positive for H5N1 a day later.<\/p>\n<p>A recent medical journal chronicled the teen\u2019s hospitalization in Vancouver, which involved tracheal intubation and supplemental oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>Her family says in a statement that the experience has been \u201clife-changing\u201d and that they are grateful to have their daughter home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/b-c-teen-with-avian-flu-discharged-after-weeks-in-hospital\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B.C. teen with avian flu discharged after weeks in hospital<\/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],"class_list":["post-7821","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","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","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=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7822,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions\/7822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}