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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ken Cooper, CPHIC March 2009
... direct contact exposures, RPEP should also be offered to people awakening to find a bat in their bedroom, even if ... ] The incidence of rabies preventable by providing RPEP to people with unrecognized exposure in the bedroom is thus ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC May 2009
... the 1990s, crack cocaine has become more prevalent in BC. People who smoke crack may develop oral lesions and burns ... pipes, and HCV has been detected on crack paraphernalia. People who share crack pipes may therefore be at increased ... has hardened on the inside pipe wall. It was reported that people were using the plunger of syringes as push sticks, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gregory D. Deans, MD, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2009
... compared with the elderly.[ 2,3 ] In the United States, people over the age of 50 years have made up only 5% of ... of influenza-related complications among young children, people over the age of 65, pregnant women, and people with chronic medical conditions.[ 4 ] Proper infection ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... do. It’s easy to forget what a critical role we play in people’s lives and in their memories; it’s easy to forget ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH September 2009
... and irritation. • Reduced lung function. For most people air pollution may be a relatively minor risk, ... reduce exposure. When considering where to live and work, people should ideally choose a location that is more than 150 ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS October 2009
... children, the smaller citizens of our society. Several people, upon hearing this, have said, “Oh dear, how awful. ... children are truthful, direct, and reliable historians and people, as well as seldom obese! They are trusting and ... incredible advances in diagnosis and treatment technology. People get better because of us and, on occasion, in spite of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD October 2009
... that this medical surveillance process does indeed select people at increased risk of developing active disease. In BC, approximately 1800 people are referred for postlanding surveillance annually. ... medical is effective for the most part in excluding people with active infectious disease coming to Canada, but ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS December 2009
... fussy or irritable.” But that would be wrong. For these people are, or were, highly intelligent business and professional people who functioned at a very high level. The onset of ... Although only a friend or acquaintance to these people, I have found these experiences profoundly disturbing, ...