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

A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in critical condition and experiencing difficulty breathing, health officials said Tuesday.

An island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat from a fast-spreading strain of bird flu. High pathogenicity avian influenza, or HPAI, is suspected to have reached Marion ...