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 ...

A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children's hospital, sick with Canada's first presumptive human ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Avian influenza: 5 things to know about 'bird flu’ B.C.’s provincial heath officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, has reported the first ...