B.C. Child’s Death Linked To Enterovirus D68.
VANCOUVER – The death of a B.C. child has become the third fatality in the province linked to the enterovirus D68 infection.
Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an infectious disease specialist with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, said Saturday the child was under the age of five when it died in November and the agency was notified last week.
The deaths of an elderly person and young adult have also been associated with the respiratory virus, and Skowronski said the patients had multiple underlying medical conditions or asthma.
Because of privacy issues, Skowronski said she couldn’t reveal the child’s gender or age.
“Like the other two, we can’t say with certainty whether that infection was causally related with the death or in what way in may have contributed, so right now we’re describing it as a death in association with enterovirus D68 confirmation,” she said.
