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B.C. has no active measles cases as students return to class, but the B.C. Centre for Disease Control sequenced a genetically distinct strain after a cluster of 11 cases in the province’s northeast in July and August. That matters because Canada’s measles elimination status, lost on Nov. 10, 2025, is tracked by virus strain rather than case count: the country regains it only once transmission of the original outbreak strain is interrupted for at least 12 months. Neither PHAC nor PAHO has published the date that clock started, so widely repeated late-2027 timelines are inference rather than an official figure.

Health Canada’s new Controlled Substances Regulations take effect Oct. 1, letting pharmacists substitute controlled drugs during shortages — but not in Ontario.

Canada’s chief public health officer cited an 85% national measles vaccination rate. In Alberta’s south zone and northeast B.C., local coverage runs near 60%.

Quebec’s first-ever raccoon rabies case in a cat caps a stunning resurgence — from 93 cases in 2025 to 171 so far in 2026, two decades after the province thought it had eliminated the disease.

An Ontario AI tool flags hospital delirium risk, but the untold story is a $210M national data expansion and its unanswered equity questions.

A Minnesota woman is suing Chipotle after alleging that she contracted a salmonella infection from a burrito bowl at the…

The use of artificial intelligence in fields like health care has been growing in recent years — and now scientists…

As fear grows around the rise of cyclosporiasis cases in the United States, Quebec farmers are feeling the hit. Demand…

Two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies are riding the wave of popularity of GLP-1 drugs, which have led to higher…

Health Canada has authorized pharmaceutical company Moderna to move forward with a clinical trial for an mRNA vaccine targeting the…