Commonly known as bird flu, H5N1 Avian Influenza can be deadly for both humans and birds. It was detected in a routine ...

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.

As health officials investigate the source, farmers worry about the disease’s impact on the local agriculture industry.

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) detected H5 avian influenza, or bird flu, on Oahu for the first time ... H5N1 spreads among birds and mammals and cases in people stem ...

The Centers for Disease Control recommends wearing protective personal equipment, known as PPEs, when working with birds, ...

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

A B.C. teenager who tested positive for bird flu — caused by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza — is now in critical ...

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

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 ...

Since the virus appeared in North American wild birds in 2021, human cases have mostly presented ... Read more:'More serious ...

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