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World TB Day: Inuit org raises alarm on TB crisis as Canadian election begins

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, March 24, 2025 at 16:22
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March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day.  And with a federal election now underway in Canada, the country’s national Inuit organization

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Tuberculosis outbreaks in 3 Nunavut communities still ongoing years later

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 12:44
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A tuberculosis outbreak was declared in Pangnirtung in 2021, Pond Inlet and Naujaat in 2023 An outbreak of tuberculosis in

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Pangnirtung, Nunavut. The community experienced four-days of rolling blackouts this year. (Radio Canada International)
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3 Nunavut communities still have ongoing tuberculosis outbreaks

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2024 at 14:29 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2024 at 14:43
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Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet and Naujaat still fighting outbreak Three Nunavut communities still have ongoing tuberculosis outbreaks — one of which

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Service reductions at Yellowknife Public Health extended until further notice

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 09:12 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 09:14
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Health department still responding to tuberculosis outbreak Service reductions at Yellowknife Public Health, triggered by a tuberculosis outbreak, will now

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Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife on Aug. 21, 2021.
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N.W.T. declares tuberculosis outbreak in Yellowknife after 2 cases identified

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 15:55
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Both cases linked, Public Health working on contact tracing The N.W.T.’s acting chief public health officer is declaring a tuberculosis

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Inuit leaders disappointed with budget’s lack of money for tuberculosis elimination

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 09:14
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By Brett Forester · CBC News Budget pledges $1.1B for First Nations and Inuit health but offers nothing on TB elimination specifically

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Nunavut sets up mobile tuberculosis clinic in Naujaat as outbreak grows

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 15:31
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3 have died since outbreak began, 21 diagnosed with active TB Nunavut’s Health department has opened a community-wide mobile testing clinic

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Wastewater study launched in Iqaluit to help better detect TB

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 16:12 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 16:25
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A study examining wastewater is being launched in Iqaluit that the Nunavut government, Inuit leaders and researchers say could help

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How the legacy of Canada’s tuberculosis sanatoriums haunts public health efforts in Pangnirtung

Matisse Harvey, Radio-Canada
Posted: Friday, September 15, 2023 at 09:28
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Sixty-five years ago, tuberculosis left Nancy Anilniliak with an invisible scar. In 1958, when she was five, Anilniliak was taken

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Nunavut asks federal gov’t for help handling tuberculosis outbreaks

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 10:20
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Nunavut’s chief public health officer, Dr. Sean Wachtel, says he will be requesting federal aid to help deal with the territory’s

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Naujaat becomes 3rd Nunavut community to face tuberculosis outbreak

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 16:33
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There are 6 active cases and 10 latent cases in the community, says health department Nunavut’s Health Department declared an

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Tuberculosis rising after COVID-19 pandemic redirected services, say health officials

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 09:20
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By Alison Northcott ‘Huge rebound’ in TB deaths and cases in some areas, according to Canadian health officials Canada’s longstanding

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Nunavut declares tuberculosis outbreak in Pond Inlet

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 15:44
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Nunavut’s chief public health officer has declared an outbreak of tuberculosis in Pond Inlet. Five people in the north Baffin

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Privacy commissioner in Nunavut, Canada says government should release more data on tuberculosis

Julia Peterson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 11:34
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Nunavut’s privacy commissioner wants to see more transparency from the territorial government when it comes to tuberculosis cases. Nunavut has

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Coronavirus hurting Alaska attempt to reduce tuberculosis

The Associated Press
Posted: Monday, July 13, 2020 at 16:53
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Alaska is on track to repeat last year’s mark of the U.S.’s highest rate of tuberculosis infections, health officials said.

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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