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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

President-elect Donald Trump appoints Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services chief, sparking concerns over health ...

There are no indications that H5N1 bird flu would spark a pandemic, but experts urged preparedness including stockpiling vaccines and using wastewater testing.

Human-to-human transmission of bird flu is exceedingly rare and there has been no evidence of sustained transmission between ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

A teenager has been left in critical condition after contracting the first presumptive human case of avian influenza in ...