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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc November 2018
... their feces, raccoon latrines represent a health risk to people and their pets. Baylisascaris eggs take from 2 to 4 ...
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: Mark W. Tyndall, MD, ScD, FRCPC March 2017
... by law enforcement. Most of the deaths have occurred among people with long-standing opiate use, and the explanation for ... the risk. There are myriad reasons and events that launch people into habitual drug use—trauma, personal tragedy, ... indifference to the pain, suffering, and even death of people who buy drugs from the illicit market. If we ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Melissa McLaws, DVM, PhD April 2017
... fatal zoonotic viral infection, and kills more than 59 000 people annually around the world, mostly in Asia and Africa. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc October 2017
... as directed by my doctor and not to share them with other people, as this would risk side effects and promote ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2016
... this isn’t the case for everyone. Each year in BC many people at higher risk of acquiring these infections face ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2016
... events than immunizing those who are susceptible; in such people, pre-existing immunity will interfere with replication ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... Pregnant women. Infants, young children, and elderly people. Are air cleaners effective? Air cleaners with HEPA ... wildfire smoke, so the best defence is to be prepared. People with chronic diseases should carry rescue medications ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Patrick Tang, MD, PhD, April 2015
Every year approximately 300 people in BC are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) ...