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Health Four additional health care workers in Missouri who had contact with a hospitalized patient infected with bird flu developed mild respiratory symptoms, but the virus was not confirmed in any of them, U.S. health officials said Friday. The Missouri patient had no known contact with infected animals Thomson Reuters · Posted: September 27, 2024 12:50 EDT | Last updated: …

A B.C. man has been sentenced to two months of house arrest after pleading guilty to posting a Facebook video threatening the life of a Richmond Center MP. A judge gave Peter Liu a 60-day suspended sentence on Wednesday after the 30-year-old admitted he videotaped himself calling Wilson Miao a “communist agent” before saying, “He’ll get what’s coming to him” …

The dose24:55What should I know about iron deficiency? Guelph resident Sasha Burnison was in sixth grade when she was diagnosed with iron deficiency. “So I would [feel] “I want to work out, for example, but I just want to… go home and sleep,” said Burnison, now 18. “[I couldn’t] “If I ran around too much, I got dizzy.” After consulting …

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. Two years after losing her only child, Maria Lopez says she draws strength from her necklace featuring a photo of 18-year-old Jeshennia. “She was a charming girl… a joker, a good student, a good daughter, a good advisor,” Maria recalled. Jeshennia “was everything.” The death of Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez, a recent high school graduate …

In a busy ward at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, one of Shirley Bell’s patients was suffering from a cat bite and a fever. He seemed fine otherwise, until an artificial intelligence-based warning system signaled that he was sicker than he seemed. While the nursing team typically ran blood tests around noon, the technology would alert them to incoming …

A historic donation to the IWK Health Centre helps children from Maritiem who struggle with mental health and addiction problems. The Halifax hospital announced Monday that it has received $25 million from the Garron family, the largest single donation to health care in the Atlantic region, according to the IWK Foundation. Berna and Myron Garron, originally from Westport, NS, previously …

The dose20:22Why should I worry about mosquitoes? Teacher Melanie Klimkowski from Belle River, Ontario, never worried about mosquitoes because they didn’t seem to want to bite her. After learning more about the insects during a special workshop with her eighth-grade class, she now carries a small amount of mosquito spray with her at all times to help keep the arthropods …

Public health authorities are encouraging people who received a first dose of the mpox vaccine in the past two years to definitely get a second dose. Many people at risk of exposure to mpox got vaccinated in Canada starting in the spring of 2022, when a global outbreak of the virus was declared, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer said in …

A New Hampshire resident who tested positive for the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, state health officials reported. The Hampstead resident’s infection was the first in the state in a decade, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday. The resident, identified as an adult, had been hospitalized with severe central nervous system symptoms, the …

It’s been more than three years since Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) decided to ease restrictions on access to mental health services for the families of soldiers, sailors and crew in trouble. And the country’s veterans ombudsman says little has changed in that time. Nishika Jardine published a new retrospective report Wednesday that provides a snapshot of the recommendations her office …