Canada’s Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country’s first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu.

Some species of migratory birds could transmit variants of bird flu in Hawaii, such as golden plovers, or kolea, which carry ...

A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.

Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says.

Initial testing had indicated the teenager's infection was from bird flu and was confirmed in further testing, the Public ...

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

British Columbia health officials have yet to identify a likely source of the infection, though none of the teen's contacts ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

A teenager has been left in critical condition after contracting the first presumptive human case of avian influenza in Canada. Expert Sam Scarpino discusses the health risk and potential for spread.

And “spillover” infections on farms, where a virus from one species turns up in another, are nothing new. Back in May, H5N1 ...

Following an absence of 15 months, the H5N1 HPAI virus has been detected again in the far west of Asia in the Republic of ...