USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

There were nearly one million more visits to Toronto food banks this year compared to last, continuing a trend of rising ...

In the U.S., wastewater surveillance for public health became vital during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has given 72-hour strike notice to Canada Post. The notice is for both the union's urban ...

Several science and health experts are in Calgary to kick off a weeklong campaign aimed at educating Canadians about the ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu, a British Columbia health ...

But if that were to happen, a pandemic could unfold, scientists have said. Earlier in November, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in ...