A British Columbia (BC) teen from the Fraser Health region who was hospitalized with an earlier announced presumptive positive H5 avian flu infection is in critical condition, the province's top health official said today.

A Canadian teenager hospitalised with suspected H5N1 bird flu is now in critical condition, health authorities said on Tuesday.The patient, Canada’s first presumed human case of H5N1, was previously healthy and had no underlying conditions,

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 has been detected recently in wild birds and poultry in the province,

Over the weekend, British Columbia (BC) health officials reported a presumptive positive H5 avian flu infection in a teenager from the Fraser Valley who is hospitalized, which, if confirmed by Canada’s National Microbiology Lab, would mark the country's first locally acquired case.

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working to confirm the diagnosis.

H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers.

British Columbia's provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the teenager who has tested positive for bird flu is in critical condition and being treated at B.C. Children's Hospital.

Dr. Bonnie Henry says the teen, the first presumptive human case of bird flu contracted in Canada, was admitted to hospital late Friday