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Children are among those being hit hard this flu season, with most infections being detected in people under 19, according to Health Canada.

The head of the United Nations' HIV/AIDS program is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government's planned cuts in global health funding and foreign aid.

With measles spreading to more than 5,000 Canadians in the past year, Canada is poised to lose its measles-free status from the Pan-American Health Organization.

A federal government plan to cull more than 300 ostriches at a B.C. farm over bird flu concerns has raised local tensions, leading to vandalism and an alleged assault.

The World Health Organization and partners embarked on their polio campaign in 1988 with the bold goal of eradication — a feat seen only once with smallpox in 1980.

The head of Myanmar’s military government told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2,719 people have now been found dead, with 4,521 others injured and 441 missing.

There are no indications that H5N1 bird flu would spark a pandemic, but experts urged preparedness including stockpiling vaccines and using wastewater testing.

WHO acknowledged that testing for mpox is still not widespread, making it difficult to understand how exactly the virus is spreading.

The type of mpox spreading rapidly through several African countries could arrive in Canada, where that strain hasn't appeared before, Canadian experts say.  

As mpox cases escalate in Africa and increase in other countries like Canada, the World Health Organization on Wednesday again declared the virus a global public health emergency.

Outspoken Calgary E.R. doctor Dr. Joe Vipond said the panel is in response to a lack of recent direction from the Alberta government on stopping the spread of COVID-19.

The government made the announcement Monday afternoon via a news release, as Alberta recorded more than 3,000 new cases of the disease over the last three days.

On April 1, B.C. consolidated its five post-COVID clinics into a virtual service, citing a drastic reduction in monthly long COVID patient referrals.

Watch the full broadcast of The West Block from Sunday, May 17, 2020 with Mercedes Stephenson.

The vaccine trials were being conducted out of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University.

Members of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine task force are casting worried eyes at the Trump administration's political push to get a vaccine approved before the U.S. presidential election in November.

'I think that we can open up safely and get to our previous lives now,' said one infectious disease specialist.

'I just don't want to be on the flip side of it, where we could somehow be responsible for anybody getting sick or God forbid, you know, get COVID and pass away.'

Europe could see an additional 700,000 COVID-19 deaths by the spring, new pandemic projections show unless the continent can curb new infections.

Many EU countries have already begun giving COVID-19 booster doses to their populations but are using different intervals between the first shots and boosters.