Experts and health authorities say that while the risk of human infection with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza remains low ...

When it comes to surveillance, PHAC said provincial and territorial public health agencies must report both “confirmed and ...

Results show that, using unadjuvanted subvirion vaccines, at least two vaccine ... Mortality of H5N1 infections in humans has exceeded 50%, a mortality worse than that associated with the "Spanish ...

Although infectious disease experts aren’t sounding the alarm yet, they’re analyzing virus data to understand mutations and ...

Human-to-human transmission is very rare, but as cases among animals rise, many experts are worried the virus could develop ...

Experts warn that the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, which has already infected mammals and demonstrated mutations ...

A Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first human case of H5N1 in the current ... [+] outbreak detected in the country. A teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized ...

California's public health department had reported the case on Tuesday, but said there was no evidence of human-to-human ...

A teenager in Canada, hospitalized with the country's first case of the H5N1 bird flu, is in critical condition. Health ...

If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the form of a vaccine is months away ...