The developing avian influenza panzootic and the growing possibility of a pandemic bring to the fore the existential ...

In the 2009 swine flu pandemic, multiple reassortment events in pigs and birds led to the novel H1N1 virus strain, which led ...

An extensive, multi-agency public-health investigation into an avian influenza case involving a B.C. teenager has identified ...

A teenager in Vancouver is critically ill after contracting H5N1 avian influenza, highlighting concerns about the virus's ...

It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans ...

The teen remains in critical condition in BC Children's Hospital, and Henry said an extensive investigation had yet to find a ...

Flu viruses enter cells by attaching to sugars that stick up from their surfaces called sialic acids. Birds have an abundance ...

It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.

The bird flu virus continues to spread around the world, including in mammals like cows. Scientists are worried it could ...

B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry will provide an update today on the status of the teenager who was infected ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...