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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Moderna says Health Canada has approved its mRNA vaccine to protect against respiratory syncytial virus in adults age 60 and ...

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

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

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 ...