In April 2009, clusters of severe respiratory illness in Mexico and sporadic cases of more typical influenza illness were identified in California and Texas due to a novel influenza A H1N1 (human... Read More
BC Centre for Disease Control
The rapidly growing use of new macrolide antibiotics such as azithromycin and clarithromycin in British Columbia and Canada has been associated with increasing levels of macrolide resistance in gram... Read More
Conceptually, harm reduction is an approach that reduces the harmful effects of behavior. It involves a range of nonjudgmental approaches and strategies aimed at providing and enhancing the knowledge... Read More
Botulism is a rare but serious disease of both children and adults. Neurotoxins produced from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum produce a descending, symmetrical, flaccid paralysis that may result... Read More
Rabies is an almost invariably fatal zoonotic infection, and globally claims an average of 55 000 lives annually, mostly in Asia and Africa.[1] Rabies is transmitted by the saliva of an infected... Read More