The Canadian Food Inspection Agency plans to move ahead with a plan to cull ostriches in British Columbia, citing the birds have a genetic composition of avian influenza associated with a human ...

Analyzing GISAID Data Otto and co-author Sean Edgerton, a PhD student focused on genomics and infectious diseases at the University of British Columbia, accessed GISAID data on January 10 and ...

This D1.1 strain of H5N1 bird flu is different from the B3.13 genotype which has been fueling this past year's unprecedented outbreak on dairy farms across the U.S.

In those cases, a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia was hospitalized for months and suffered organ failure after contracting H5N1 from an unknown source, and a person older than 65 in Louisiana ...

In B.C., Canada’s first domestically acquired human case of H5N1 involved a teenage girl who became critically ill in November, and was only released from hospital on Jan. 7.

A British Columbia doctor who treated a 13-year-old avian flu patient says the case has made him concerned about the potential for more human H5N1 infections. While the patient was recently ...

Both the Louisiana and the British Columbia cases were caused by genotype D1.1 viruses. They are the only two severe infections reported in North America in 2024.

The death in Louisiana and hospitalizations in Missouri and British Columbia are concerning, but they have not changed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s assessment that the ...

The genetic sequence of the virus isolated from the patient is more similar to that of the severe case of H5N1 in British Columbia than the virus widely circulating in cattle and poultry.

Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 confirmed human H5N1 infections in the United States this year. But the ...

Additional Source New England Journal of Medicine Source Reference: Garg S, et al "Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infections in humans" N Engl J Med 2024; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2414610.