The highly anticipated Presser by Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry updating the status of the British Columbia teen is scheduled for 2 PM EDT today, 11//26/24.
In the last update a timeline was discussed but the source of the infection was unknown. The teen was in critical condition and had been H5N1 confirmed. The source was expected to linked to wild birds, and the prevalent genotype in wild birds was D1.1.
The full sequence from the teen was uploaded to GISAID
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