BC Centre for Disease Control

Confidentially, could you resist looking at your pattern of an­ti­biotic prescribing and comparing it with evidence? Without anyone else knowing?  If you are a GP in active practice, you will... Read More

Scope of problem More than 60 years after the development of effective antimycobacterial therapy, tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant problem in British Columbia. Provincial TB rates exceed the... Read More

Summertime heat is generally thought not to be an important contributor to population mortality in British Columbia.  Although summer temperatures of over 33°C are not uncommon in BC’s lower... Read More

This article highlights recent trends in antimicrobial resistance of key bacterial patho­gens. These findings represent a brief overview of the BCCDC’s 2010 Antimicrobial Resistance Trends re­port.[1... Read More

In April 2009, a novel H1N1 in­fluenza virus (pH1N1) was detected in southern USA and Mexico. It was first identified by the British Co­lumbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology... Read More