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Canadians should get COVID booster in fall, advisory committee recommends
A vaccine is drawn at a clinic in Winnipeg, Friday, March 19, 2021.The Manitoba Labour Board has dismissed several complaints from workers who wanted their unions to fight COVID-19 requirements.THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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The key to fighting ticks? Getting to know them better
FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, which is also known as a deer tick. Ticks will be more active than usual early in spring 2023, and that means Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections could spread earlier and in greater numbers than in a typical year. Ticks can transmit multiple diseases that sicken humans, and deer ticks, which spread Lyme, are a day-to-day fact of life in the warm months in New England and the Midwest. (CDC via AP, File)
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Nova Scotia funding meningitis vaccine for university students after recent deaths
A portrait of Kai Matthews, who died suddenly from meningitis b while attending Acadia University in 2021, in his parents’ home in Hubley, N.S. on Saturday, February 18, 2023. Kai’s father Norrie Matthews maintains there is a “huge” awareness gap about the vaccine to prevent the fatal disease and has led a fundraising campaign to pay for every student at Acadia to get the vaccine. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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World’s animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic
FILE PHOTO: Ducks are seen in a field in Bourriot Bergonce, southwestern France, January 7, 2017, after France ordered a massive culling of ducks in three regions most affected by a severe outbreak of bird flu as it tries to contain the virus which has been spreading quickly over the past month. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
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U.S. to end COVID-19 vaccination requirements for foreign travellers, federal workers
FILE - A nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas, April 26, 2021. The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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Fewer Canadians believe in value of childhood vaccines, according to new global report
THAT OLD NEEDLE DOESN'T REALLY HURT... MUCH -- Measles vaccination for Toronto school children. Paul Cornier, middle, is more concerned, and Linda Dool watches with serious expression, as Dr. Michael Kapusta gives vaccinations at St. Teresa's Separate School, New Toronto, December 13, 1965. New Toronto school children are being immunized in mass program against the disease. Photo by James Lewcun / The Globe and Mail. Originally published December 14, 1965
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Canada’s pledge to make more vaccines at home is still a work in progress
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters during a news conference following a visit to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Royalmount Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre facility in Montreal, Monday, Aug 31, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic wasn't even six months old, and not a single vaccine for it had been approved for use anywhere, when Trudeau took to a podium in Montreal to promise that Canada's National Research Council would be able to start churning out millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Moderna says flu shot misses early success bar, but expects 2024 revenue
FILE - A sign marks an entrance to a Moderna building in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, May 18, 2020. Moderna shares slipped Tuesday, April 11, 2023, after the COVID-19 vaccine developer said its potential flu vaccine needs more study in a late-stage clinical trial. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)
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WHO changes COVID-19 vaccine recommendations
FILE - Pfizer, left, and Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccines are readied for use at a clinic on Nov., 17, 2022, in Richmond. Va. President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday, March 23, 2023, by a federal appeals court. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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Novak Djokovic’s vaccine stance is just another display of mental strength
Cathal Kelly
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Company planning to make COVID-19 vaccines in Canada warns it could go out of business
Scientists examine a step in the vaccine purification process as they design updates to the Novavax's COVID-19 shots in the company's research laboratory on May 24, 2022, in Gaithersburg, Md. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Angie Wang
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Novavax shares plunge after COVID-19 vaccine maker raises doubts about future
FILE PHOTO: A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed Novavax logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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Vaccine for urinary tract infection awaiting Health Canada approval
Signage explaining that Ontario pharmacists are able to provide prescriptions for minor health conditions is photographed at a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy in Etobicoke, Ont., on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Ontario pharmacists' new ability to assess and write prescriptions for conditions such as pink eye and uncomplicated urinary tract infections has led some doctors to express concern. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Nova Scotia launches vaccine campaign after three students die of meningococcal B
A portrait of Kai Matthews, who died suddenly from meningitis b while attending Acadia University in 2021, in his parents’ home in Hubley, N.S. on Saturday, February 18, 2023. Kai’s father Norrie Matthews maintains there is a “huge” awareness gap about the vaccine to prevent the fatal disease and has led a fundraising campaign to pay for every student at Acadia to get the vaccine. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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Routine school-based vaccinations plummeted in Ontario during the pandemic, new report finds
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How misinformation can kill you
Marcus Gee
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Governments seek buyer as Quebec COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Medicago set to close
Retired nurse Donna Lessard takes part in the Medicago COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials with project co-ordinator Raphael Brochu Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in Mirabel, Que. The parent company of Medicago Inc. has announced it will shut down the Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company which had developed a vaccine against COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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