Tag Archives: Health
Congo suspends funeral wakes and big gatherings in Ebola outbreak, as WHO upgrades risk assessment
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Authorities in northeastern Congo banned funeral wakes and gatherings of more than 50 people Friday in an effort to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in a region where medica...
May 22, 2026
Expert: Canada should be vigilant about Ebola with World Cup coming in two weeks
TORONTO - An expert on public health and communicable diseases says Canada should remain vigilant about an Ebola outbreak in Africa, with the FIFA men's World Cup coming to Toronto and Vancouver in tw...
May 22, 2026
Quebecer graduating from Polytechnique with service dog who attended every class
MONTREAL - When Victor Bal walks across the stage to collect his mechanical engineering degree at Polytechnique Montral, his service dog Kopeck will be by his side - just as she's been for every singl...
May 22, 2026
Ebola: How it spreads, the treatments available and why this outbreak is so devastating
TORONTO - As a rare strain of Ebola virus continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, here's what Canadians need to know. ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EBOLA? Yes. There are a f...
May 22, 2026
Cases of Lyme disease in Montreal highest in more than 20 years
MONTREAL - Montreal public health is warning of an uptick in Lyme disease in the city after officials recorded 161 cases in 2025. That's the highest number of cases since 2003, when Lyme infections be...
May 21, 2026
Residents burn an Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witn...
May 21, 2026
Air France flight diverted to Montreal amid U.S. Ebola travel restrictions
MONTREAL - U.S. Customs and Border Protection says an Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo boarded "in error" ...
May 21, 2026
What Canadian aid workers face in the Ebola outbreak ravaging the Congo
TORONTO - People just keep coming. They know they have Ebola. Some have converged at the gate of the Doctors Without Borders office in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri province in the Democratic Repub...
May 21, 2026
Jays' Berrios expected to miss at least 12 months after undergoing elbow surgery
NEW YORK - Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios will miss the rest of the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. The procedure was performed Wednesday, a team spokesman said. Elbow ligamen...
May 20, 2026
3 dead in New Mexico and first responders treated for exposure to unknown substance, officials say
MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (AP) - Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders were quarantined and being treated Wednesday for exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a sus...
May 20, 2026