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

A British Columbia teen who contracted Canada's first known human case of H5 bird flu has deteriorated swiftly in recent days ...

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 ...

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

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

also known as bird flu, caused by the H5 influenza virus — the first presumed human case of H5 avian influenza acquired in Canada. “Canada has not reported any domestically acquired human cases of H5 ...

the first detected human case in Canada from the recent outbreak. The individual is presumed to have contracted the virus, also called avian flu or avian influenza, from exposure to wild birds ...

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