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The New Brunswick government said the individual diagnosed with monkeypox, a viral infectious disease, is currently in isolation and is being monitored.

Monkeypox was declared a public health emergency Thursday in the U.S., and questions are being raised about whether Canada should follow suit.

Ontario reported a total of 478 monkeypox cases, making it the province with the most cases in Canada while Quebec reported 425 cases.

Hamilton Public Health is characterizing the risk of getting monkeypox as minimal among the general public with only a handful of reported cases.

PHAC says 10 people in Alberta and Saskatchewan who ate fresh organic strawberries from Co-op stores are now part of a hepatitis A outbreak.

Relatively little is known about the effects of long COVID, also known as post-COVID-19 condition, including how to diagnose it.

Several local police services in Canadian cities with international airports indicated they're taking a 'support' role for PHAC when it comes to enforcing the Quarantine Act.

The Public Health Agency of Canada spent years letting elements of pandemic preparedness slide before COVID-19 hit, says a new report from the auditor general.

Confusion over whether truckers would remain exempt from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate last week stemmed from bureaucrats misinterpreting policy in more than one federal agency.

The federal public health agency says the location data was 'de-identified' and could not be linked to individual Canadians’ movement, but privacy advocates still concerned.

Commons committee will hold emergency meeting Thursday to discuss the Public Health Agency of Canada’s plans to purchase the cellphone location data of millions of citizens.

Canada already has mechanisms, including vaccines and treatments, in place to tackle the monkeypox outbreak amid signs of cases slowing down, Dr. Theresa Tam said.

Canada's chief public health officer says plans are underway to sift through Canadian sewage to test for and measure new health threats like monkeypox and polio.

A recent glitch in ArriveCAN that ordered more than 10,000 people to quarantine may have violated Canadians' fundamental rights, experts warn.

Iain Stewart told the special committee on Canada-China relations he can't go into details because of an ongoing RCMP investigation.

A pair of hopeful travellers from Regina have voiced their concerns with accessing ArriveCAN upon their return home, leaving them wondering what to do next.

In a statement late on Thursday, the Public Health Agency of Canada said two individuals in Quebec had tested positive for monkeypox.

Dr. Howard Njoo, the country's deputy chief public health officer, said there are 'lots of factors at play.'

The employees include firefighters, correctional officers, administration staff, and workers at the BC Liquor and Cannabis stores.

The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada has resigned amid a surge in cases of coronavirus in some of Canada’s most populous provinces.

Latest data from the Public Health Agency of Canada shows hospitalizations due to COVID-19 rose about 18 per cent across Canada to 6,020 people needing beds from 5,109.