With B.C. teen sick in hospital with suspected bird flu, what should parents know? – GLOBAL
November 11, 2024
Students across B.C. return to school on Tuesday but the news that a teen is in hospital in Vancouver with a suspected case of H5 bird flu has some people worried.
Dr. Anna Wolak, a family physician in Vancouver, said many parents are likely having flashbacks to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite this flu being a single case.
“So my main concern is the safety of our children,” she said.
“As we go back to the crowded areas, to schools in general where children are packed in the classroom, what I am hoping is that over the summer and over the last few years of this, living with COVID, that the schools have updated their filtration, their purification and their ventilation systems.”
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/10864171/bc-teen-hospital-bird-flu-parents-concerns/
