Top Results For: Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Ce

Gerry Wright, a professor at Hamilton's McMaster University, was one of five scholars announced Tuesday to each receive the cash award.

Disease X, a hypothetical illness with the potential for 20 times more fatalities than the COVID-19 pandemic, will be the focal point of a panel discussion in Davos on Wednesday.

Global News ran standard checks on all 17 suppliers that won contracts for rapid tests. BTNX stood out, so Global News traced the company’s supply chains around the world.

The familiar lime-green kits were not always reliable in detecting COVID-19, experts say, putting Canadians at risk.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control released a bulletin Wednesday, saying a passenger with measles was in the airport on Nov. 23.

The WHO says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

In 2021, WHO endorsed the first malaria vaccine in what it described as a 'historic' effort to end the devastating toll the mosquito-transmitted disease has on Africa.

With two new COVID-19 variants emerging just before the fall — a season when respiratory viruses thrive — health experts are warning Canadians to stay vigilant.

Dr. Angela Rasmussen at the University of Saskatchewan said mpox cases have gone down in places like Canada and the U.S., but it's still a problem in places like Mexico and France.

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.

Several brands of frozen organic strawberries have been recalled in the United States over concerns of hepatitis A infection. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating.

Additional COVID vaccine boosters are not something the WHO "routinely recommends" for medium or low-risk adults and children.

Public health said two new cases were diagnosed in the Montreal area on March 17, after several months without any new infections.

Some of the world's leading makers of flu vaccines say they could make hundreds of millions of bird flu shots for humans within months.

After a CDC advisory, Health Canada says people who attended a large religious gathering in the U.S. state of Kentucky last month may have been exposed to measles.

According to the World Health Organization, while the risk to humans remains low for now, bird flu needs 'to be monitored closely.' Canadian health experts agree.

The research found that protection against COVID-19 for infants was most effective when mothers got their second or third dose of mRNA vaccine during pregnancy.

As the WHO mulls whether COVID-19 remains an emergency, some health experts say COVID is still a public health threat and measures to combat it in Canada should continue.  

On Wednesday, an Alberta Health spokesperson confirmed four cases of XBB.1.5 have been identified in the province.

The study showed that more than $511 million has been contributed to the economy over the last decade due to VIDO's operations and construction projects.