While the exact strain is yet to be determined, authorities have presumed the virus is H5N1 – the strain currently ...
A teenager in British Columbia, Canada has been hospitalized with a presumed case of H5N1 bird flu, the first detected human ...
A teenager in Canada, hospitalized with the country's first case of the H5N1 bird flu, is in critical condition. Health ...
British Columbia health officials have yet to identify a likely source of the infection, though none of the teen's contacts ...
New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...
Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says.
Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...
The presentation, so brief as to be little more than a public service announcement, signals an abandonment of efforts to ...
highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus has been sporadically detected in various mammalian hosts and, most recently ...
Although the CDC has stated that the risk of avian flu infecting the general public remains low, the detection of the H5N1 strain in a pig introduces concerns regarding future mutations.