Public Health

Advice for schools/daycare/caregivers; appropriate antiviral use; counterfeit antivirals; updated stats.

Officials ask doctors not to prescribe antivirals for prevention of H1N1 infections, except for very specific situations.

Ontario healthcare providers are being advised to promptly report all cases of influenza-like illness in patients with a travel history to Mexico, or contact with a case of swine flu in the past seven days, to the local public health unit.

How to prevent ADREs

Update on cases, advisories.

April 25 to May 2, 2009 is National Immunization Awareness Week in Canada, as part of a global initiative to strengthen immunization programs.

More teens and young adults are surviving cancer, according to the Canadian Cancer Society's Canadian Cancer Statistics 2009 report.

Human immunodeficiency virus infections are on the rise in Saskatchewan, with 174 new cases reported in 2008.