OTTAWA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Wednesday confirmed the first domestically acquired human case of H5N1 avian influenza in Canada.

Canada’s National Microbiology Lab confirmed the presumptive prognosis after testing genomic sequencing, officials said.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

Health officials were struggling to answer a broader and potentially worrisome question: how the infection occurred.

The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate. Hong Kong should test for ...