Health officials in British Columbia, Canada, have failed, for now, to confirm how a teenager there became infected with H5N1 ...

B.C. health officials say they still don't know how a teenager became infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu, but say no ...

In the 2009 swine flu pandemic, multiple reassortment events in pigs and birds led to the novel H1N1 virus strain, which led ...

"This young person has received the best possible care from the clinical team at B.C. Children’s (Hospital) and is stable, ...

At this point, there is no evidence that this particular mutated H5N1 virus has traveled beyond the one Canadian ... “no further cases have been identified,” Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health ...

Bonnie Henry, the B.C. provincial officer of health, will host a press conference at 11 a.m. Tuesday to provide an update on ...

A child in California has tested positive for bird flu, despite having no known contact with infected animals, state officials reported.

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus ...

The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu ...

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says it is "a rare event" and only a handful of cases of bird flu, caused by the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus, have been detected in humans in ...