A Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first human case of H5N1 in the current ... [+] outbreak detected in the country. A teenager in British Columbia, Canada has been hospitalized with a presumed case of H5N1 bird flu, the first ...

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The West Coast Canadian province of British Columbia said on Saturday that it had detected the first presumptive positive case of H5 bird flu virus infection acquired by a human in Canada. The individual presumed to be infected is a teenager who is receiving care at a children's hospital,

Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British Columbia, health officials said on Saturday. The teenager likely caught the virus from a bird or animal and was receiving care at a children's hospital,

Health officials in B.C. are investigating Canada’s first-ever presumed human cases of avian influenza after a B.C. teenager tested presumptively positive for the disease, the Ministry of Health announced Saturday.

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British Columbia's Ministry of Health says the first suspected human case of bird flu contracted in Canada has been detected in B.C.