The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) today confirmed a human case of avian influenza (also known as bird flu) caused by ...

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to help investigate a mysterious brain illness that ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has also been testing milk for signs of H5N1 in dairy cows. Canada has had no ...

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

Canada’s Public Health Agency has confirmed that a B.C. teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country’s first human case ...

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.

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 ...

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

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

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

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