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

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

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

Instead, they’re left wondering how their pets ended up hurt or dead, after getting a shot that was supposed to give them new ...

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 ...

Initial testing had indicated the teenager's infection was from bird flu and was confirmed in further testing, the Public ...

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 in B.C. has a human case of avian influenza.

TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says.