A teenager diagnosed with bird flu in British Columbia is the first domestically acquired human case of H5N1 avian influenza, ...

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

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

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

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 B.C. teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country’s first human case ...

British Columbia's Ministry of Health says the first suspected human case of highly pathogenic avian flu contracted in Canada ...

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how ...

A teen in B.C. has contracted a severe strain of avian flu and remains in critical condition. The province's chief veterinarian says wetlands in the Fraser Valley have been showing high levels of the ...

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

Unlike France and other countries, Vaillancourt said, Canadian farmers generally don’t vaccinate domestic livestock against avian flu. He says that is because Canada is considered too small a ...