A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.

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

Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s health officer, said the teen first developed symptoms, included conjunctivitis, fever and coughing, on Nov. 2. They were tested on Nov. 8 when they were admitted to ...

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

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

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.

A teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized in critical condition with the disease, and officials were working to find ...

Health officials on Wednesday confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen and said the virus was related to a poultry ...

Henry shared that the teen, who had been “healthy” with “no underlying conditions,” previously went to the hospital on Nov. 2 ...

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

None of the obvious connections to an H5N1 influenza case were in play, according to Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health ...

Encounters like Law’s are under new scrutiny after a B.C. teenager tested positive for bird flu in the first presumptive case ...