When the US Department of Agriculture announced that the H5N1 bird flu had turned up in a pig, I dropped what I was doing to ...

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada, has contracted the H5 strain of bird flu, marking the country's first confirmed human ...

B.C. health officials are investigating what's believed to be the first human case of avian influenza caught in Canada after ...

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says it is “a rare event” and only a handful of cases of bird flu, caused by the ...

This province has been declared free from the highly pathogenic avian influenza after several months of monitoring and other ...

BC announced on Saturday afternoon that an individual in British Columbia had tested presumptive positive for avian influenza ...

B.C. health officials say they have detected Canada's first-ever case of H5 avian influenza in a human. In a news release ...

Chicago | Reuters—H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.

Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British ...