Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...

Recent health news highlights include CareMax filing for Chapter 11 restructuring due to significant debts, a severe dengue ...

Last week B.C.'s Provincial Health Officer shared that a teenager in the Fraser Health region had tested positive for avian influenza. It is the first case of a human contracting bird flu in Canada.

Investigations are underway after a teenager from British Columbia, now receiving care in hospital, was infected via an ...

Avian flu typically spreads between wild and domestic birds but can spread to other animals and people. There have now been ...

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...

The patient, the country’s first presumed human case of H5N1, was previously healthy and had no underlying conditions ...

People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu — or highly pathogenic avian influenza — since a B.C. teen became the ...

British Columbia health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry shared in a news conference that a teenager, who contracted the first ...

Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...

B.C. health authorities have announced the first case of a human avian flu infection acquired in Canada, with the teenage patient in critical condition in hospital.

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...