Service reductions at Yellowknife Public Health extended until further notice
Health department still responding to tuberculosis outbreak Service reductions at Yellowknife Public Health, triggered by a tuberculosis outbreak, will now
Read moreHealth department still responding to tuberculosis outbreak Service reductions at Yellowknife Public Health, triggered by a tuberculosis outbreak, will now
Read moreBoth cases linked, Public Health working on contact tracing The N.W.T.’s acting chief public health officer is declaring a tuberculosis
Read moreBy Brett Forester · CBC News Budget pledges $1.1B for First Nations and Inuit health but offers nothing on TB elimination specifically
Read more3 have died since outbreak began, 21 diagnosed with active TB Nunavut’s Health department has opened a community-wide mobile testing clinic
Read moreA study examining wastewater is being launched in Iqaluit that the Nunavut government, Inuit leaders and researchers say could help
Read moreSixty-five years ago, tuberculosis left Nancy Anilniliak with an invisible scar. In 1958, when she was five, Anilniliak was taken
Read moreNunavut’s chief public health officer, Dr. Sean Wachtel, says he will be requesting federal aid to help deal with the territory’s
Read moreThere are 6 active cases and 10 latent cases in the community, says health department Nunavut’s Health Department declared an
Read moreBy Alison Northcott ‘Huge rebound’ in TB deaths and cases in some areas, according to Canadian health officials Canada’s longstanding
Read moreNunavut’s chief public health officer has declared an outbreak of tuberculosis in Pond Inlet. Five people in the north Baffin
Read moreNunavut’s privacy commissioner wants to see more transparency from the territorial government when it comes to tuberculosis cases. Nunavut has
Read moreAlaska is on track to repeat last year’s mark of the U.S.’s highest rate of tuberculosis infections, health officials said.
Read moreBefore the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Canada’s Inuit were already grappling with a much deadlier respiratory disease: tuberculosis. The TB rate
Read moreNearly two years after the federal government committed to eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit by 2030, progress is stalled and the
Read moreThe Canadian government has consented to the certification of a proposed $1.1 billion class action lawsuit filed over Indian hospitals
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