Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

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The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed earlier this week that a British Columbia teen has been hospitalized marking the nation's first domestically acquired human case of H5N1 avian influenza, ...

As a Canadian teenager’s condition worsened amid the first presumptive positive test for bird flu in that country in over a decade, health officials were struggling to answer a broader and potentially ...

In November, a teenager in British Columbia was infected and hospitalized with bird flu, caused by the H5N1 virus. While most cases have been mild, commonly characterized by conjunctivitis and ...