Earlier this year, a team of scientists garnered a wave of media attention with their provocative report: They claimed to have found two cases of a...
Bird flu has already spread to wild birds, chickens and mammals, including a polar bear and an alpaca. The more widespread it becomes, the more officials...
A disease caused by a rare “flesh-eating bacteria” that can kill people within 48 hours is spreading in Japan after the country relaxed Covid-era restrictions. Cases...
If you’ve had COVID-19, you may want to have your eyes checked. SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease, can infect the inside of your eyes,...
Five cows in the United States have been infected and died from bird flu or slaughtered because they did not recover, Reuters reports. Bird flu, also...
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Ottawa’s public health agency is raising the alarm over its capacity to respond to infectious diseases as reported cases rise and become more complex to manage. In...
Iowa has reported its first case of bird flu in a herd of dairy cattle. The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday that Highly Pathogenic Avian...
Due to the spread of avian flu in American dairy herds, the Canadian government has expanded its surveillance program of testing. Lactating dairy cattle imported from...
Even as national institutions struggle to coordinate meaningful trials for possible long COVID treatments, researchers continue to tally the damage. New findings suggest that the disease’s...
Citing rising cases of sexually transmitted infections in the territory, Iqaluit-Sinaa MLA Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster asked Thursday what the Government of Nunavut is doing to address...
The summer travel season has kicked off. With that comes stays in hotels, motels, vacation homes, any place that isn’t your own, which means there’s a...