Community in Canada’s eastern Arctic dealing with hepatitis A outbreak
A hepatitis A outbreak in Chesterfield Inlet is not over. In fact, Nunavut’s Department of Health now suspects there are
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Most teens in Canada’s Northwest Territories not practising safe sex, survey says
Most sexually active teenagers in the Northwest Territories report not using condoms regularly. That’s one of the findings of a
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Nurses in Arctic Canadian village ‘exhausted’ by flu season and staff shortage, patient says
Patients in Arviat, Nunavut (Canadian east-Arctic), say nurses in the community are overworked and overwhelmed as they deal with a
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Dene Nation chief fears fatal disease affecting northern caribou
Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya is calling for an emergency meeting with the federal and territorial governments to discuss the
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Canadian Inuit organization releases strategy to eliminate TB by 2030
Canada’s national Inuit organization released Monday its strategy to eliminate by 2030 the “staggeringly high rates” of tuberculosis (TB) among
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Arctic Quebec: Inuk woman’s botulism symptoms not taken seriously by nurse, widower says
A man from Inukjuak said the failure of a nurse stationed in the Arctic Quebec community to recognize the signs
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Faster treatment for latent tuberculosis coming to Northern Canadian territory
A drug that can cut the amount of time it takes to treat latent tuberculosis, or TB, down to just
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Canada to apologize for treatment of Inuit with tuberculosis in mid-20th century
The federal government is poised to apologize for how it treated Inuit who were plucked from their communities across the
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More than 800 000 reindeer to be vaccinated against anthrax in Russia
In the course of summer, the whole reindeer population of the Nenets tundra will be made immune against the lethal
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Alaska TB rate dips but still among the U.S. highest
The state Department of Health said 57 cases of tuberculosis were reported in Alaska in 2016. That’s a moderate decrease
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Anthrax outbreak in Arctic Russia could be just the beginning: scientist
Anthrax is one of many infectious disease agents preserved in the record melting permafrost. Burial sites across Siberia with infected
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Reindeer herders evacuated from anthrax zone in Russian Arctic
13 people are hospitalized and 1,200 reindeer are dead on the tundra in Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region in what could be
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