Canada’s Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country’s first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu. The agency says in a statement that testing at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirms the teen did contract the H5N1 avian flu, the same strain related to

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