A Canadian federal agency says it has shot dead all ostriches at a British Columbia farm, fulfilling a 10-month-old cull ...

Canada's Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal about a federal agency's order to cull hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued the ...

Bald eagles are just one of the birds you'll likely see along BC's celebrated bird trail. This spring, grab your binoculars and join The BC Bird Trail in celebrating the start of another amazing ...

Scientists believe it was roughly a year ago that an influenza virus sickening and killing birds happened upon a new and surprisingly hospitable host in the Texas Panhandle — dairy cattle. That ...

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A case of H5 bird flu is believed to be detected in a human in Canada for the first time, health officials said Saturday. A teenager from the province of British Columbia tested positive for the virus ...

On Tuesday, epidemiologist Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer in British Columbia, Canada, announced that a teenager from the Fraser Health Authority had been admitted in critical ...

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu, a British Columbia health official said Tuesday. It's not clear how the teenager picked up the virus, which ...

A teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized in critical condition with the disease, and officials were working to find out how the person was exposed to the virus. By Vjosa Isai Reporting from ...

A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, sick with Canada’s first presumptive human case of avian influenza. “This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no ...

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