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Hospitals around Winnipeg are seeing a wave of RSV and influenza patients, especially among children. Dr. Philippe Lagacé-Wiens, medical microbiologist at St. Boniface Hospital, says they’re seeing three times as many cases in their emergency room over the past few weeks. “Influenza, classically, hits like a freight train running through the station,” Dr. Lagacé-Wiens tells […]
Deaths in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from an as-yet unidentified disease are continuing to rise. So far there have been 71 confirmed fatalities, with 27 recorded in hospitals and 44 in communities in the southern province of Kwango. The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent a team of experts to […]
A syringe containing a vaccine for whooping cough in a waiting room at Alaska Family Care and Associates in Anchorage on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Respiratory diseases like the flu or RSV are common during the Fall and Winter, but how do you know when your symptoms […]