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Longtime HIV advocate Albert McLeod says cases have been steadily rising for nearly two decades, and he’s been urging the government to declare an emergency for years.
As the cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus prepares to disembark to the Canary Islands, countries around the world are mobilizing to monitor the potential symptoms of more than 140 passengers and crew members on board.
Hamilton Public Health says it has confirmed 13 cases of legionellosis, a serious respiratory infection caused by bacteria mainly found in warm water environments.
A study suggests that marital status may play a role in cancer risk, with people who have never married face a higher rates of the disease.
Authorities and the cruise operator have been providing updates on a hantavirus-stricken cruise, but some key information is still lacking. Here’s what we don’t know.
Three Canadians with connections to a deadly hantavirus-stricken cruise are self-isolating at home in Ontario and Quebec, the federal government says.
Before the world’s attention was captured by a disease outbreak that has killed three and sickened a handful of others on the MV Hondius cruise ship, many Canadians had never heard of hantaviruses.
Elisha Thompson of Oshawa, Ont. was 15 years old when she got her first tattoo, and she went on to get many more. She never thought the tattoos she had could one day affect her eyesight.
Health Canada has announced temporary measures to prevent the trafficking of three new substances. The federal department warned that a “dangerous and unpredictable” illegal drug supply of potent synthetic opioids is fuelling drug-related deaths across the country.
Two Ontario residents who were on a cruise ship that’s been hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak are currently in isolation but are not believed to be at risk of transmitting the virus, Health Minister Sylvia Jones says.
Countries worldwide on Thursday scrambled to prevent further spread of the hantavirus, after an outbreak on a cruise ship, by tracking those who had already disembarked before the virus was detected and anyone in close contact with them since.
Manitoba is declaring a public health emergency over HIV infection rates.
An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare, rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three passengers dead and sickened others, but global health officials say the risk to the general public remains low because the germ does not easily spread between people.
Doctors and cancer survivors are applauding a move by Ontario to lower the age for colorectal cancer screening as the disease continues showing up in younger patients.
Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.
Social media isn’t likely to strengthen your friendships, even your close ones, and could even make you lonelier found a new study focused on adults.
