The hospitalized teen was also given three antiviral treatments, underscoring how severe H5N1 infection can be ...

A letter sent to The New England Journal of Medicine and signed by Canadian health officials says the 13-year-old girl ...

Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 ...

As for testing, the girl's first swab at BC Children's was positive for influenza A but negative for H1 or H3 disease.

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

The teen's infection, which was announced in November, was the first human case of H5N1 avian flu acquired in Canada.

The first Louisiana patient with bird flu has died, officials with the state health department said Monday. The death is the first U.S. H5N1-related human death, the agency said.

Health officials in British Columbia closed their investigation into ... The teen was infected with a newer variant of the H5N1 virus, D1.1, which is carried by wild birds. This variant has ...

The patient, who was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, was hospitalized Dec. 18 in critical condition with severe respiratory illness.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reports seven commercial poultry locations in Southwestern Ontario have been ...