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Olympic officials made the right call in postponing the Canada-Finland women's hockey game on Thursday after several players on the Finnish team came down with norovirus, doctors say. 

Nipah virus has a death rate ranging from 45 to 75 per cent, and there is no vaccine or medical treatment available for animals or humans.

Dr. Vivien Suttorp says hospitalizations for respiratory viruses peaked on Dec. 31, when there were 700 influenza patients — a number that has since dropped to 513.

Measles symptoms typically present themselves within seven to 21 days after being exposed to the virus and are spread through droplets in the air from coughing or sneezing.

The province is asking Quebecers who are sick to contact the 811 health hotline to seek advice before heading to the emergency room.

The province is also warning of more than 100 exposure sites across the province.

The latest national influenza data released Friday accounts for the period of Jan. 4 to Jan. 10 and shows the number of new flu cases is on the decline.

The Canadian filmmaker said New Zealand's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the United States' response gave him the push he needed. 

Stacey Ross waited for 11 hours in the emergency room to be seen before she later died. She had previously spent 12 hours waiting to be seen two weeks earlier.

Be wary of the salad dressing bottle.

Kirsty Duncan had made public her multiple operations, radiation and chemotherapy to treat her cancer since she was diagnosed in 2023.

The ostriches at the Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., were culled in November 2025, following an unsuccessful legal challenge from the farm to prevent the cull.

Officials are now warning that any large event in Manitoba over the next few months should be considered a potential measles exposure site.

As CFIA workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, one official says.

Shawn Tuffnell says he punched a moose multiple times, gripping its neck, before shooting it to death to save his 70-year-old mother. 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said around one in three (32.9 per cent) of influenza tests came back positive for the week ending Dec. 27, 2025.

The Canadian women's hockey team shrugged off a delay to the start of its Olympic women's hockey tournament and geared up for a different first opponent.

'The state of the acute-care system in the Edmonton zone is an absolute crisis. I have never seen it this bad,' said a Royal Alexandra Hospital emergency department physician.

Calls for urgent health-care system measures have intensified since the death last month of a man who waited nearly eight hours in an Edmonton emergency department.

A total of 2,144 confirmed measles cases were reported in the United States in 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday.