Highlights Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) is investing in research to address the threat of H5N1, an avian influenza ...

Last year, a 13-year-old in British Columbia contracted Canada’s first known human case of avian flu after testing positive ...

In other avian flu developments, tests at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have confirmed the H5N1 strain in rats for ...

A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were euthanized.

A new wave of the avian influenza (bird flu) is sweeping through the United States and is pushing egg and milk prices to ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and its partners are taking proactive measures to protect the health of people in ...

The strain of bird flu is distinct from what has previously been found in dairy cattle. The finding raises some worrying ...

Another spillover of the H5N1 bird flu virus from wild birds to dairy cattle appears to have occurred, this time in Arizona.

The statement explained that many of the positions were in the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, exactly the kind of ...

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with ...

However, two recent cases show that the H5N1 virus now circulating in the U.S. and Canada also can cause severe pneumonia and death in people. A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia was infected ...