Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Monday, May 04, 2015

OIE Notification Of First H5N8 Detection In Canadian Wild Bird

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  # 10,006   Just about two weeks after the outbreak of HPAI H5N2 in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley began we saw the first reports...
Monday, February 09, 2015

OIE Notification On Canadian H5N1 Detection

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  # 9692   Although we discussed it at some length yesterday (see H5N1 Detected In B.C. Backyard Flock ), we now have the OIE Notif...
Friday, January 30, 2015

H7N9 Confirmed In 2nd B.C. Patient

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Credit Wikipedia # 9646   On Monday we learned of the first known imported case of H7N9 into North America (see PHAC Statement O...
Monday, January 26, 2015

PHAC Statement On Canada’s Imported H7N9 Case

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Photo Credit- CDC   # 9631   In a case smacking of deja flu - just over a year after North America’s first imported case of H5N1 (...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

Canada FluWatch Report Week 51

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Map of overall influenza/ILI activity level by province and territory, Canada, Week 51   # 9526   Due to the Holidays our regular...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Canada: FluWatch Week 50

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  Credit Canada’s FluWatch     # 9468     Yesterday we looked at the CDC’s latest FluView Week 50 report, and so this morni...
Friday, September 05, 2014

CCDR: Ebola Preparedness Guidance For Canada

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9041   With West Africa’s Ebola spiraling out of control in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia – and making i...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Hantaviruses: Of Mice And Men

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  # 8780     While relatively rare, one of the infectious diseases that we tend to hear more about during the summer months is Han...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

WHO GAR Update On Canadian H5N1 Fatality

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A colorized transmission electron micrograph of Avian influenza A H5N1- Cynthia Goldsmith   # 8051   Just about 24 hours after t...

CDC Statement On 1st H5N1 Case In North America

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Global H5N1 cases & Deaths - Credit CDC   # 8149   Although the risk of seeing additional avian flu cases in Canada ( or the...

PHAC: Speaking Notes Of H5N1 Technical Briefing

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Alberta, Canada – Credit Wikipedia   # 8146   Yesterday’s announcement of North America’s first (imported) case of H5N1 in Albert...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Alberta Canada Reports Fatal (Imported) H5N1 Infection

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  Alberta, Canada – Credit Wikipedia   # 8141     The story is only about 30 minutes old, and details are still emerging, bu...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

PHAC: Lyme Disease Risk Increasing In Canada

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Female blacklegged ticks in various stages of feeding. Note the change in size and colour.-  Credit PHAC   #7527   Lym...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

PHAC Guidance On Handling H7N9 Cases

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N-95 Respirator         Surgical Facemask     # 7197   Yesterday the Public Health Agency Of Canada   published a set of ...