COVID-19 looks like it is either plateuing or going down slowly. Influenza is clearly thinking about making its move, but hasn’t yet.
If you are trying to time your flu vaccination for maximum effect, it might be time to start thinking about doing do in the next few weeks.
H5N1
Transmission
🐦⬛🤧 This article (2025-10-27) reports that Lower Mainland chickens are in lockdown because seven poultry farms in Chilliwak and Abbotsford are infected with bird flu. (Note that this is not something new or unusual: BC is on a major flyway, and gets hit by bird flu every fall. That doesn’t mean it’s not bad, it’s just not unusual. Any more.)
Charts
From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:
In the most recent data (ending 25 Oct) as reported on 30 Oct 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e upper respiratory diseases) cases the province has test data for:
- 33.8% were COVID-19;
- 30.8% were entero/rhinoviruses;
- 20.9% were influenza A or B;
- 6.2% were RSV;
- 6.4% were parainfluenza;
- 1.1% were metapneumonia viruses;
- 0.5% were adenoviruses;
- 0.3% were “common cold” coronaviruses.
So roughly a third is COVID-19, a third entero/rhinoviruses, a fifth influenza, and the rest is “everything else”.
Wastewater
💩💧 Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
