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There’s heightened emphasis on the role climate change may play in the spread of legionnaires’ disease as London, Ont., deals with its second deadly outbreak since the summer of 2024. Some scientists point to the Earth’s warming temperatures and changing weather patterns — some of the signals of climate change — as playing a big role …

Rebecca Archer lovingly places a pair of small glasses on a shelf filled with memorabilia like trinkets and photos. They belonged to her 10-year-old daughter, Renae, who suddenly died after a measles infection. “She was just really intelligent. Just a really happy child, always smiling,” she remembers. Renae was just five months …

The former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says major funding cuts to the agency could lead to more cases of diseases such as paralytic polio and malaria.  In an interview airing Sunday on CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live, Samantha Power described the consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to …

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Measles infections are ticking up and up across multiple provinces, with more cases already this year than …

There have been 95 measles cases reported in Canada so far this year — with Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba reporting new cases in the last week, says Canada’s chief public health officer.  That’s in contrast to 147 cases for all of last year.  “The fact that … the numbers are growing …

Alberta care homes are once again battling a growing number of COVID-19 outbreaks. According to the province, 160 new COVID outbreaks have been declared in long-term care and supportive living facilities across the province since Sept. 1. 72 residents have been hospitalized and 33 have died. “It can be quite trying,” said …

Monkeypox cases surged in countries around the world throughout the spring and summer, but there’s hope this unprecedented global outbreak may be finally winding down. Health officials in several regions are even optimistic that this virus — which has spread to more than 100 countries, causing over 60,000 infections this …

For years, African scientists tracked a steep rise in monkeypox cases. More than 2,800 suspected cases were reported in 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone. The year after, there were nearly 3,800. By 2020 — half a century after the first human infection was found in the …