BC Centre for Disease Control

Toxicants such as lead and mercury pass from mother to fetus, potentially leading to slowed growth and neurodevelopment in the child. Two in five Greater Vancouver residents are immigrants, and... Read More

Every year approximately 300 people in BC are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) disease.[1] To establish effective treatment, isolation precautions, and public health responses, a rapid and... Read More

British Columbia is expanding use of pneumococcal conjugate 13-valent vaccine (PCV13, Prev-nar 13) to HIV-infected adults starting in April 2015. Since June 2010, the vaccine has been in use for... Read More

Context Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is an important cause of progressive liver disease. It is spread through blood-to-blood contact and seldom produces symptoms at the time of infection. Three... Read More

Since whole-cell pertussis vaccine was replaced with acellular pertussis (aP) vaccine in BC in 1997, systemic adverse events in infants such as febrile seizures and hypotonic hyporesponsive episodes... Read More