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.

or bird flu, on Oahu for the first time from a wastewater sampling site. The specimen was collected on Nov. 7, 2024 and DOH received the result on Nov. 12. The type of H5 avian influenza was H5N1, ...

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

Canadian health officials have confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen. The Public Health Agency of Canada said ...

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

British Columbia health officials have yet to identify a likely source of the infection, though none of the teen's contacts ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...

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

A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital with what is likely Canada’s first human case ...

A teenager has been left in critical condition after contracting the first presumptive human case of avian influenza in Canada. Expert Sam Scarpino discusses the health risk and potential for spread.

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu, a British Columbia health ...