Alameda County child believed to be latest case of bird flu; source unknown
LA TimesCalifornia health officials reported Tuesday that a child in Alameda County tested positive for H5N1 bird flu last week. “It worries me greatly that this virus is popping up in more and more places and that we keep being surprised by infections in people whom we wouldn’t think would be at high risk of being exposed to the virus.” A statement from the California Department of Public Health said that none of the child’s family members have the virus, although they, too, had mild respiratory symptoms. Richard Webby, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds and a researcher in the department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., said he knew nothing about the particulars of the case — other than what he had read in the news release — but, “I’m just hand waving here,” it is possible the low levels of H5 virus detected were just fragments of the virus picked up in the environment and not necessarily circulating in the child. She also said while the state considers it a high likelihood the virus is H5N1, there are other H5 viruses circulating — including an H5N5 virus that’s been detected in wild birds in eastern Canada. “It’s natural for people to be concerned, and we want to reinforce for parents, caregivers and families that based on the information and data we have, we don’t think the child was infectious — and no human-to-human spread of bird flu has been documented in any country for more than 15 years,” said CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón.
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