As for testing, the girl's first swab at BC Children's was positive for influenza A but negative for H1 or H3 disease.

A new publication in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reports a case of critical illness caused by influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in a 13-year-old girl from British Columbia. She ...

At baseline, bird flu is usually severe in humans. Of the 863 reported H5N1 bird flu cases reported worldwide between 2003 ...

In severe cases, bird flu can lead to pneumonia or respiratory failure, TODAY.com previously reported. Many of the human ...

Theories suggest that part of an antigen (a foreign substance in the body that provokes an immune reaction) may spread in severe conjunctivitis and cause OCP. This may be the case when OCP occurs ...

Here’s what to know about the United States’ first confirmed severe case of H5N1 avian influenza—and how to protect yourself.

An investigation by the Louisiana Department of Health and CDC has determined that the hospitalized patient, a resident of ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced that it has confirmed the nation’s first severe H5N1 ...

A person in Louisiana has the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A MAN in Louisiana has been hospitalised with the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, health officials have said. This is the first “severe” case of bird flu reported in the US where the ...