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Jan Przeranski suffers from a chronic, progressive condition that has caused swelling and infections in his arm, rendering it mostly non-functional.

The dropping of the flu vaccine mandate follows what health officials described as a particularly severe flu season, during which U.S. infections surged.

A team at the University of Cambridge say this is the first time that a vaccine whose active component was 'designed entirely by computer simulations has been tested in humans.'

The University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) will be the first educational institution in Canada to have Containment Level 4 labs.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) say they are in the early stages of preclinical testing a hantavirus vaccine

A judge has recommended better vaccination campaigns and solutions to overcrowded housing after the death of a six-year-old Indigenous boy in northern Alberta.

Jan Przeranski says that as a result of his vaccination, he suffers from severe lymphedema, a chronic, progressive condition that has caused swelling and infections in his arm.

Four Canadians are isolating across the country after exposure on the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship. The outbreak has left three dead and 11 other identified cases.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged 2,318 cases of measles as of Thursday, according to an agency update on Friday.

The Montérégie Public Health Department confirmed to Global News that three people have received what is known as post-exposure prophylaxis after exposure to a cat with rabies. 

The 11-year-old boy was at a cottage in northern Ontario in the summer of 2024 and was awoken by a bat lying on his nose and mouth, the case report said.  

If not immunized, it is estimated that 75 per cent of sexually active Canadians will have an HPV infection at some time in their lives.

The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said 1,031 deaths have been confirmed from the fast-spreading and incurable Bundibugyo virus behind the outbreak.

Health officials in Toronto are warning the public they may have been exposed to measles if they visited a Scarborough hospital or walk-in clinic last week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines meningitis as "inflammation (swelling) of the lining of the brain and spinal cord."

Quebec's measles outbreak has grown to 27 confirmed cases, with the majority linked to the Quebec City area and new exposure sites identified west of the provincial capital.

The move injects new drama into tensions between Fauci and Republican lawmakers over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and accusations he lied about the origins of COVID-19.

A spokesperson ​for Taylor Farms, the supplier of the lettuce reportedly at the centre of the outbreak, said the company was informed the FDA made a mistake.

There has also been 165 hospitalizations since the outbreak began, with eight admissions into the intensive care unit and four deaths.

Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall says she plans to resign her seat in the House of Commons at the end of the summer.