Tag Archives: Health
Public health agency says World Cup poses high risk of measles spread
OTTAWA - There is a high risk of measles transmission within Canada during the FIFA World Cup, an analysis by the Public Health Agency of Canada warned Thursday. The federal agency completed its infec...
May 14, 2026
Public health agency says World Cup poses high risk of measles spread
OTTAWA - There is a high risk of measles transmission within Canada during the FIFA World Cup, an analysis by the Public Health Agency of Canada warned Thursday. The federal agency completed its infec...
May 14, 2026
Fact File: Misleading claims about hantavirus shared online amid cruise ship outbreak
As Canadians connected to an outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship isolate in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, rumours and misinformation about the virus are spreading online. Her...
May 14, 2026
Top doctor explains why number of 'low risk' hantavirus contacts in Canada has grown to 26
TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer says the country is taking a "precautionary approach" in monitoring people who may have had indirect contact with passengers who were on the hantavirus-s...
May 14, 2026
B.C. symposium puts spotlight on dangers associated with strangulation
Charuka Maheswaran was 29 when she met the man she would later marry, have three children with, and who she said eventually beat and strangled her. "He pushed me up against the counter and I could fee...
May 14, 2026
Poll suggests politics, geography and trust play roles in vaccine hesitancy
OTTAWA - A new online survey suggests nearly a quarter of Canadians say they've declined to get a vaccine recommended by their doctor, and the data indicates most of them did so because they were conc...
May 14, 2026
B.C. nurses vote for strike, as union boss raises prospect of dispute amid World Cup
VANCOUVER - Members of British Columbia's nurses union have voted overwhelmingly to strike, with union president Adriane Gear raising the prospect of a dispute while "the whole world is watching us" d...
May 12, 2026
B.C. nurses vote for strike, as union boss raises prospect of dispute amid World Cup
VANCOUVER - Members of British Columbia's nurses union have voted overwhelmingly to strike, with union president Adriane Gear raising the prospect of a dispute while "the whole world is watching us" d...
May 12, 2026
French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11
PARIS (AP) - A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sicke...
May 12, 2026
Ontario monitoring 7 additional people considered 'low risk' hantavirus contacts
TORONTO - Ontario's ministry of health is asking seven more people to isolate in relation to a global hantavirus outbreak, though it says those individuals are considered "low-risk" contacts. Jackson ...
May 12, 2026