Avian flu typically spreads between wild and domestic birds but can spread to other animals and people. There have now been ...

Canada’s Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country’s first ...

Experts and health authorities say that while the risk of human infection with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza remains low ...

A B.C. teenager remains in hospital with avian flu, according to British Columbia's top doctor. On Tuesday, Provincial Health ...

Federal health officials have confirmed that a B.C. teen who is currently in hospital has Canada's first human case of H5N1 ...

A teenager in Canada, hospitalized with the country's first case of the H5N1 bird flu, is in critical condition. Health ...

Canada’s National Microbiology Lab confirmed the presumptive prognosis after testing genomic sequencing, officials said.

H5N1 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with several ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) today confirmed a human case of avian influenza (also known as bird flu) caused by ...

A teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized in critical condition with the disease, and officials were working to find ...

On Nov. 13, the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg confirmed that the teen in B.C. has a human case of avian influenza.

But Ward said a human infection in Canada was "almost inevitable," given the spread of the disease in recent years in North ...