Tag Archives: Health
Cases of Lyme disease in Montreal highest in more than 20 years
MONTREAL - Montreal public health is warning of an uptick in Lyme disease in the city after officials recorded 161 cases in 2025. That's the highest number of cases since 2003, when Lyme infections be...
May 21, 2026
Residents burn an Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witn...
May 21, 2026
Air France flight diverted to Montreal amid U.S. Ebola travel restrictions
MONTREAL - U.S. Customs and Border Protection says an Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo boarded "in error" ...
May 21, 2026
What Canadian aid workers face in the Ebola outbreak ravaging the Congo
TORONTO - People just keep coming. They know they have Ebola. Some have converged at the gate of the Doctors Without Borders office in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri province in the Democratic Repub...
May 21, 2026
Jays' Berrios expected to miss at least 12 months after undergoing elbow surgery
NEW YORK - Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios will miss the rest of the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. The procedure was performed Wednesday, a team spokesman said. Elbow ligamen...
May 20, 2026
3 dead in New Mexico and first responders treated for exposure to unknown substance, officials say
MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (AP) - Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders were quarantined and being treated Wednesday for exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a sus...
May 20, 2026
Progress, but work left to do in reform to Quebec youth protection system: minister
MONTRAL - Fewer than half of the recommendations from a landmark public inquiry into Quebec's youth protection services have been fully or largely implemented, says a five-year progress report release...
May 20, 2026
One person in Ontario who recently travelled to East Africa tested for Ebola virus: ministry
TORONTO - One person in Ontario was being tested for Ebola, the province's health ministry said on Wednesday, as a deadly outbreak of a rare type of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and U...
May 20, 2026
Generic semaglutide to hit Canadian pharmacies this week at a fraction of the cost of Ozempic
TORONTO - Two generic versions of Ozempic are set to start arriving in Canadian pharmacies this week, which means patients who use the drug to treat diabetes or for weight loss may have more options f...
May 20, 2026
Ebola fears surge on the ground in Congo over rapid spread of a rare type
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Anxious healthcare workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the virus in one of the ...
May 20, 2026