New Brunswick has declared a provincewide whooping cough outbreak, two months after an outbreak was initially declared on the Acadian Peninsula. “We are expanding this outbreak to the entire province …
Tick experts are warning Canadians to be on the lookout for symptoms of a tick-borne disease whose case counts have been steadily increasing over the past 15 years. Anaplasmosis is an …
Tick experts are warning Canadians to be on the lookout for symptoms of a tick-borne disease whose case counts have been steadily increasing over the past 15 years. Anaplasmosis is an …
Sweat, heavy breathing, warm temperatures and lots of people — the gym is the perfect environment for bacteria to thrive in, which is why wiping equipment down is a normal …
Steven Theriault is convinced he has the solution to an urgent global public health threat — antibiotic resistance. But he can’t get his bacteria-killing viruses approved through what he calls …
“They should not be let in.” This is the advice given by a B.C. infectious disease expert for this holiday season if a dinner guest shows up coughing on the …
Hospitals in Ukraine are now battling an “alarming increase” in germs with resistance to the last-ditch antibiotic medications used to treat the infections, a study published by the U.S. Centers …
Doctors and researchers say a series of U-turns on privatizing laboratory services in Alberta has short-changed patients facing delays in diagnosis and treatment, creating chaos that offers lessons for other …
A man in the UK has become a medical first, though not in a great way. In a recent paper, scientists say he’s the first known person to have caught …