Number of C. difficile cases dropping in Quebec, health officials ...
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MONTREAL (CP) - The number of C. difficile cases in Quebec hospitals is in decline, provincial public health officials said Friday.
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The Calgary Health Region says it still doesn&#39;t know what made about 140 people sick at the Drop-In Centre. Health officials say that more people could also become ill.
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MONTREAL - Faced with a deadly C. difficile epidemic in Quebec, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday it will begin tracking the bacterium in 21 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
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A deadly bacteria that attacks the  intestines of mainly elderly patients is showing up with more  frequency at a handful of Ontario hospitals, Joshua Tepper, the  Canadian province's acting chief medical officer of health,  said on Tuesday.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Faced with a deadly C. difficile epidemic in Quebec, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday it will begin tracking the bacterium in 25 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
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Canadian veterinary officials have quarantined one Alberta farm in their search for cattle connected to the country's second case of mad cow disease, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday.
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Experts believe the cool summer weather may be responsible for the slow spread of West Nile Virus in Canada this year. There have been only 25 human cases this year, and no deaths.
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Health officials on Thursday were investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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Canadian veterinary officials have  quarantined one Alberta farm in their search for cattle  connected to the country's second case of mad cow disease, the  Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Monday.
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Rates of the superbug MRSA are falling, but the potentially more dangerous C. difficile is thriving, figures show.
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Mother-to-child transmission of H.I.V. has dropped so sharply that public health officials now talk about wiping it out.
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Recent E. coli outbreaks have drawn attention to foodborne illnesses, and though officials say the overall number of cases is on the decline, produce &#151; particularly leafy vegetables &#151; is increasingly a carrier of germs once linked only to meat and dairy.
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MONTREALâAn infection-control specialist has described a Clostridium difficile outbreak in Quebec as an &quot;epidemic&quot; that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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MONTREAL - A Montreal infectious disease specialist who studies Clostridium difficile has described the outbreak of the bacteria in Quebec hospitals as an epidemic.
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The department said this week that, from May through September, there were 31 confirmed cases reported in the state, compared to an average of nine cases in the previous three years for the same months.
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Simple, common-sense measures such as opening hospital windows and using face masks would greatly reduce the number of new cases of extensively drug-resistant or XDR tuberculosis, doctors reported on Thursday.
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Anti-retroviral drugs are expected to drop from CFA 15,000 per month to CFA 3,000 in October. The Minister of Public Health, Urbain Olanguena Awono, last Friday faced the press within the framework of government communication policy.