Toronto health officials are investigating an outbreak of Streptococcus pyogenes, or beta streptococcus group A at Seaton House shelter for homeless men, according to a local media report. More than three...

Toronto Public Health has received a lab report indicating two mosquito pools in Toronto have tested positive for West Nile Virus. This is the first positive test for West Nile Virus in Toronto for 2016. “The...

While confirmed Lyme disease cases are about 30,000 annually and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates about 300,000 cases annually, making it the most commonly reported tick-borne...

Earlier, we saw that the number of animal rabies cases have increased in Ontario, Canada, particularly in the City of Hamilton. Now, 1500 miles away in the province of Saskatchewan, authorities are reporting...

A joint investigation by the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) and Alberta Health Services (AHS) found inadequate reprocessing and sterilization of medical devices at the Northtown...

The City of Hamilton Public Health Services received confirmation of the first positive rabid bat case this year. Nearly all human cases of rabies in Canada over the past several years have been a result...

Alberta Health Services (AHS) has confirmed a case of hepatitis A in a food handler working at two Edo Japan locations – Manning Town Centre (Edmonton) located at 15426-37 St., and Tudor Glen South (St....

In a follow up to a report Friday, The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has established an Avian Influenza Control Zone in Ontario to control the movement of animals, products and equipment in the...

Preliminary testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of H5 avian influenza on a duck farm near St. Catharines, Ontario as a low pathogenic subtype. Pathogenicity...

  After a record-breaking year in 2015 in British Columbia when dozens of people became infected with Vibrio parahaemolyticus infections, The BC Centre for Disease Control ( BCCDC ) has confirmed...