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Made-at-McMaster inhaled COVID-19 vaccine begins phase-2 human trial

Published March 10, 2025

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By Blake Dillon

Researchers at McMaster University have started a phase-2 clinical trial on a next-generation, inhaled COVID-19 vaccine.

The AeroVax study, supported by $8M in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), will test needle-free vaccines developed to provide protection from SARS-CoV-2.

Led by Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, members of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR) at McMaster, the multi-centre trial will evaluate the new vaccine in a broad study group, while also confirming safety.

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Life has gone back to normal. But those with long COVID continue to sufferPhoto of Nathanael Rafinejad. They are sitting in a wheelchair, in front of a table with a laptop computer. They have short, black hair, and they are typing as they look at the screen.
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Life has gone back to normal. But those with long COVID continue to suffer

Published March 10, 2025

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Published by: CBC News
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By Leah Hendry

When Nathanael Rafinejad first moved to Montreal, they loved the city’s nightlife and worked as a bartender and a waiter while studying business management.

But after catching COVID-19 in January 2022, the 29-year-old is now mostly confined to their apartment.

“I feel completely cut off from the world most of the time,” said Rafinejad. “I can’t walk anymore. I cannot stand for more than a few seconds at a time. I can’t sit for a long time. I have to use a wheelchair every day.”

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Seeing your life turned upside down

Published March 8, 2025

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Published by: La Presse
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By Rima Elkouri

To illustrate her long journey through long COVID, Dr. Anne Bhéreur shows me a photo sent to her by her friend Julie Pinard, who also suffers from a severe form of the disease. It shows the ice of the river at Kamouraska, sparkling in a thousand pieces under a winter sun. In the distance, fog. On the other bank, Mont des Éboulements.

The photo captures what Dr. Bhéreur has been going through since she was infected with COVID-19. It was in December 2020, following an outbreak in the palliative care setting where she worked. The doctor, a mother in her forties with no medical history and boundless energy, was convinced that she would return to her old life after 10 days. More than four years later, while she is still living with serious after-effects of the disease, she is beginning to come to terms with the idea that this life may not come back.

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Topic: measlesView all posts for the topic: measles

The measles epidemic continues in Quebec with 30 confirmed cases now

Published March 3, 2025

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Published by: Le Devoir / The Canadian Press
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By Katrine Desautels

The measles epidemic continues in Quebec. The province has reached 30 cases, according to the most recent figures from Public Health.

The Laurentides region remains the most affected with 27 cases of measles, the others being in the territories of Montreal, Laval and Montérégie.

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Measles cases in Ontario have nearly doubled over the last 2 weeks

Published February 27, 2025

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Published by: Global News / The Canadian Press
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By Hannah Alberga

This is a corrected story. A previous version from The Canadian Press erroneously reported that there were 84 new measles cases reported in Ontario over the last two weeks when in fact there were 78.

Ontario is reporting 78 new measles cases over the last two weeks, nearly doubling the province’s total count since an outbreak started in the autumn.

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Manitoba becomes first province to join national pharmacare program with $219M deal

Published February 27, 2025

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Published by: The Canadian Press
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By Sarah Ritchie

OTTAWA – Manitoba became the first province to officially join Ottawa’s pharmacare program on Thursday, giving it access to federal funding to cover the cost of birth control and diabetes medications as well as hormone replacement therapy for menopause.

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City of Ottawa to fly flag at half-mast March 11 marking lives lost to COVID-19

Published February 26, 2025

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Published by: CTV News
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By Ted Raymond

The City of Ottawa will be marking five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic with a flag-lowering in March.

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, triggering a wave of public health measures and restrictions on populations in an attempt to stop the spread of the deadly virus.

More than 1,200 residents of Ottawa have died from COVID-19 according to public health statistics.

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Four more measles cases confirmed in Norfolk County and Brant CountyColourized transmission electron micrograph of a measles virus particle (gold), with a purple background. Photo: CDC and NIAID. Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 DEED Attribution 2.0 Generic license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Four more measles cases confirmed in Norfolk County and Brant County

Published February 20, 2025

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By Shelby Knox

The Grand Erie Public Health Unit is investigating four new cases of measles.

In a news release on Thursday, the health unit said the latest cases were identified in Norfolk County and Brant County.

Two of the recently ill people are recovering in hospital while the other two are at home.

Thursday’s update brings the total number of confirmed illnesses to 57, nine of which have occurred among adults and 48 within children.

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Additional measles case detected in B.C.‘s Lower Mainland: officials

Published February 19, 2025

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By Lisa Steacy

A second case of measles linked to a group that travelled to Southeast Asia has been identified in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, according to health officials.

The infected person lives in the Vancouver Coastal Health region and was on Air Canada Flight 66, which arrived at YVR on Feb. 11, said a statement from the health authority on Wednesday. The person was travelling in the same “party” as a Fraser Health region resident in whom measles was detected over the weekend.

People who were on the flight or who were in the international arrivals area of Vancouver’s airport between 7 and 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 11 may have been exposed, the notification from health officials said.

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Canada buys 500,000 doses of H5N1 avian influenza vaccine for those most at risk

Published February 19, 2025

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Published by: CBC News
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By Amina Zafar

The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday it’s purchased 500,000 doses of a human vaccine to protect against avian influenza for those most at risk from being exposed to the virus by infected animals.

The agency said it secured the initial supply of GSK’s Arepanrix H5N1 A/America vaccine by leveraging an existing agreement.

“While the current risk to the public remains low, individuals with higher-level exposure to infected animals are at increased risk and should take appropriate precautions,” the agency said in a statement.

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Watch Out. The Plague Years Start Now

Published February 19, 2025

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Published by: The Tyee
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By Crawford Kilian

Since the inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20, the greatest health sciences organizations in the world have been first silenced, then frozen or outright destroyed. The scale, speed and stupidity of the destruction have been breathtaking.

The Trump regime is doing this to its own people, especially those in states that voted for Trump, but the shock is being felt around the world.

It is a safe prediction that Trump’s attack on health science will result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. And millions of lives will be diminished.

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Confirmed case of measles in Hamilton area child: public health

Published February 14, 2025

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By Laura Sebben

The City of Hamilton says it is investigating a confirmed case of measles.

Hamilton Public Health (HPH) says the confirmed case is tied to a Hamilton area child and they are investigating several local exposures.

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11 new measles cases confirmed: Grand Erie Public Health

Published February 13, 2025

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By Susan Gamble

Another 11 cases of measles have been confirmed by Grand Erie Public Health, bringing the total cases to 48 in the Brantford/Brant, Haldimand/Norfolk area.

One person is recovering in hospital, according to a news release, and the health unit is busy trying to contact those who may have been exposed to that person but the infection source is “unknown at this time.”

The cases involve 42 children and six adults. There are another 19 cases known in the Southwestern Public Health area.

A spokesperson for the Grand Erie health agency said all but one of the cases is from the Haldimand-Norfolk area, with just one case in Brantford-Brant.

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Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump’s crosshairs

Published February 13, 2025

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Published by: CBC News
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By Elizabeth Thompson

The call to Angela Rasmussen came out of the blue and posed a troubling question. Had she heard the rumour that key data sets would be removed from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website the next day?

It’s something Rasmussen had thought could never happen.

“It had never really been thought of before that CDC would actually start deleting some of these crucial public health data sets,” said the University of Saskatchewan virologist. “These data are really, really important for everybody’s health — not just in the U.S. but around the world.”

The following day, Jan. 31, Rasmussen started to see data disappear. She knew she needed to take action.

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Saskatchewan government working on COVID vaccination plan after feds discontinue supply

Published February 6, 2025

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Published by: Regina Leader-Post
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By Alec Salloum

With province[s] now responsible for purchasing COVID-19 vaccines, the Government of Saskatchewan says it’s figuring out what the coming flu season response will be.

The federal government announced in early January that it would stop funding COVID-19 vaccines this year, with provinces and territories now responsible for buying, determining the timing and rollout of the vaccinations.

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A Canadian Province Released a COVID Report Full of Pseudoscience. Who Wrote It, and Why?

Published February 1, 2025

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By Nick Tsergas

Last week the province of Alberta published a report on its pandemic-response calling for COVID vaccines to be restricted to “high-risk groups” and to stop “their use in healthy children and teenagers.” A mix of vaccine skeptics, fringe academics, and a Trump-appointee were behind it.

The report also recommends regulators, namely the province’s medical licensing body, be stripped of powers to discipline doctors who promote risky and ineffective off-label treatments.

The report has garnered nationwide criticism from the scientific and medical communities, with dozens of experts calling on the government to officially dismiss the report in an open letter. Dr. Joss Reimer, president of the Canadian Medical Association, said the report was “an unfortunate use of public dollars” that funneled CAD$2,000,000 into furthering misinformation. She said it will cause harm globally, as it will be referenced in jurisdictions outside of Canada.

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People need to ‘remain vigilant’ as measles cases rise, Waterloo region’s medical officer says

Published January 31, 2025

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Published by: CBC News
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By Kate Bueckert

While international travel was the initial source of these outbreaks, all the people with recent measles infections were exposed to the virus in Canada.

The majority of measles cases reported in Canada occur among unvaccinated people, many of whom are children and include infants under the age of one who are more vulnerable and have not yet had the opportunity to be vaccinated… that is why we need to remain vigilant and I recommend that we keep up-to-date with the recommended vaccinations.

— Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, Medical Officer of Health for Waterloo Region
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Measles outbreak declared in southwestern Ontario

Published January 29, 2025

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By Jennifer K. Baker

Public health officials said they are now dealing with a measles outbreak in southwestern Ontario, with 19 confirmed cases as of Jan. 29.

Southwestern Public Health, which covers Oxford County, Elgin County and the City of St. Thomas, is reporting three cases of the highly contagious disease in children.

The remaining 16 infections are with Grand Erie Public Health, which serves the City of Brantford, Brant County, Haldimand County and Norfolk County. In an update Friday, officials said thirteen children and three adults have measles.

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