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

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 British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country’s first ...

On Nov. 13, the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg confirmed that the teen ...

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

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

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

The first presumptive human case of avian bird flu has been found in Canada. Here's what you need to know about avian flu.

Investigations are underway after a teenager from British Columbia, now receiving care in hospital, was infected via an ...

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working ...

More than 40 years ago, in the early 1980s, I co-led a major report on Our Chemical Society for the City of Toronto’s ...