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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Emma Cumming, MSc January/February 2018
... Beach on English Bay. Crowds have grown from around 10 000 people in 2012 to 40 000 in 2017.[ 2,3 ] After noticing a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC March 2018
... naloxone by providing no-cost take-home naloxone kits to people at risk of witnessing or experiencing an overdose. ... supportive-housing staff, and those who work directly with people at risk of overdose. This interactive, self-guided ... and pharmacies. Patients, friends, or family of people at risk of opioid overdose can complete a thorough ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC April 2018
... recently, nor has she had contact with other symptomatic people. A stool C&S performed at a walk-in clinic was ... and symptoms persist, a second O&P may be necessary. People are infected by ingesting contaminated food or water. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2018
... post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). PHN is more common in older people, affecting 4% to 15% of zoster cases in people aged 50 to 59, 7% to 26% of cases in people aged 60 to 69, and 14% to 29% of cases in people 70 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... of as the provision of sterile injection supplies to people who use drugs or supervised consumption sites, harm ... and delivery of policy, programs, and services to benefit people who use substances, their families, and the community ... needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from 118 to 16 cases, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc November 2018
... their feces, raccoon latrines represent a health risk to people and their pets. Baylisascaris eggs take from 2 to 4 ...