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 ...

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

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

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