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BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... reported in BC.[ 1 ] COVID-19 disproportionately affects people who use substances, including risk of transmission, ... (SARS-CoV-2) infection, and drug overdose risk. How are people who use substances impacted by COVID-19? People who use substances are often socioeconomically ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM June 2019
... (MMR) vaccine is safe and effective, and most people have no adverse reaction following receipt of this ... or recent travel history, do not test for measles. Do people born before 1970 need to be immunized against measles? ... routine use will need to rely on vaccine-derived immunity. People born before 1970 are generally considered immune to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2019
... can aid decisions on subsequent antibiotic therapy. Many people with minor reactions who receive the same agent years ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD July/August 2019
... consumption and subsequent excretion in urine or when people flush pills into the wastewater system.[ 3,5,10 ] ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2019
... for a particular disease, and the number or portion of people progressing through each stage, thereby helping to ... BC demonstrates continued gaps in treatment uptake among people with a history of injection drug use.[ 4 ] Curing hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs can prevent transmission to others, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH April 2019
... infectious agent.[ 1 ] In 2017, an estimated 10 million people developed TB disease globally, resulting in an ... deaths, with 300 000 of those deaths occurring in people living with HIV.[ 1 ] TB is not just an international ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC March 2018
... naloxone by providing no-cost take-home naloxone kits to people at risk of witnessing or experiencing an overdose. ... supportive-housing staff, and those who work directly with people at risk of overdose. This interactive, self-guided ... and pharmacies. Patients, friends, or family of people at risk of opioid overdose can complete a thorough ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC April 2018
... recently, nor has she had contact with other symptomatic people. A stool C&S performed at a walk-in clinic was ... and symptoms persist, a second O&P may be necessary. People are infected by ingesting contaminated food or water. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... of as the provision of sterile injection supplies to people who use drugs or supervised consumption sites, harm ... and delivery of policy, programs, and services to benefit people who use substances, their families, and the community ... needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from 118 to 16 cases, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2018
... post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). PHN is more common in older people, affecting 4% to 15% of zoster cases in people aged 50 to 59, 7% to 26% of cases in people aged 60 to 69, and 14% to 29% of cases in people 70 ...