Via CBC News: H1N1 case detected in southwestern Ontario. Note that this is a swine-derived virus, but it's not H3N2v. Excerpt:
Ontario has found a case of an infection with a new swine flu virus, in a man who had close contact with pigs.
The infection was caused by an H1N1-variant virus, which is not the swine flu virus that has been jumping from pigs to people in the United States this summer.
That virus, an H3N2-variant, has caused 305 infections this year in the U.S. but has not been spotted in Canada to date. Most infections with the H3N2-variant flu have been in people who visited pig barns at state and county fairs.
The Ontario case was announced by the province's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Arlene King.
King said the man is being treated in hospital in southwestern Ontario. She did not indicate whether that is as a precaution or because he is seriously ill.
King said this new virus is one that rarely spreads from animals to people, and human-to-human spread is also rare.
She stressed the discovery of the infection does not trigger food safety concerns. "Proper cooking of meats, including pork, kills all bacteria and viruses."
