The first presumed human case of avian influenza (H5N1, or bird flu) has been reported in Canada. An infectious disease ...

Investigations are underway after a teenager from British Columbia, now receiving care in hospital, was infected via an ...

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 ...

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

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

A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in ...

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

The detection of a human case of avian flu caught in Canada, “is very significant,” said Matthew Miller, Canada Research ...

Here is what you need to know: What is avian flu? ...

Canada has reported H5N1 bird flu in wildlife and domestic birds. This year, there have been at least 24 reports of the virus in domestic bird facilities, including at least 10 infected premises in BC ...