27.01.2015

A woman who returned to the Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong this month was found to have avian influenza. Canadian health authorities said the patient, who tested positive to the H7N9 strain of avian flu, is not gravely ill.
The patient arrived in Vancouver on Air Canada Flight 8 on January 12. Canada’s Public Health Agency stressed that the patient had “recently returned to Canada from China”, but Flight 8 departs from Hong Kong. The woman is a resident of British Columbia and she only became sick after arriving back home.
This is the first time this particular type of avian influenza - H7N9 - has been detected in a Canadian or American.
H7N9 emerged in China in 2013, and last year infected more than 450 people there, killing 175, the World Health Organisation said.

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See also: H5N1 in a patient who had traveled to China