In fall 2024 a Fraser Valley teen became critically ill from the H5N1 avian flu virus. A year later a man in Louisiana died ...

The soaring price of eggs is a ripple effect of an ongoing outbreak of avian influenza, also known as H5N1 or bird flu, which has spread from wild birds to dairy and poultry farms, infected cats, and ...

When a B.C. teenager became critically ill with H5N1 avian influenza in November 2024, Canada's first human case, scientists ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that testing of a person with a severe case of bird flu indicated the virus had mutated when compared with samples taken from infected ...

Sporadic human infections with avian influenza A viruses have caused a wide spectrum of illness. As these novel influenza A viruses pose pandemic potential, timely detection and characterization of ...

Although no human cases have been reported in the Region so far in 2026 and animal outbreaks have declined compared with the previous year, the virus continues to circulate among birds and mammals, ...

How do we know when an animal virus might pose a risk to humans? Canada confirmed a human case of H5N1 avian influenza (often ...