Tag Archives: H1N1 virus

No reason for complacency

If the people who run intensive care units are worried, so should you: ICU docs who rode H1N1’s first wave warn colleagues of what’s coming Ontario teen dies from H1N1

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Nunavut’s biggest health problem: poverty

So argues the doctor and novelist Kevin Patterson, author of Consumption, in this science article published Sept. 5 in the Globe and Mail: Influenza has a cure – it’s affluence Genetic theories are often used to explain — usually without … Continue reading

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Swine flu hits Iqaluit

Here’s Tagak Curley, the Nunavut health minister, answering a question posed on the afternoon of June 15 by South Baffin MLA Fred Schell: Hon. Tagak Curley (interpretation): Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Since there have been no cases of H1N1 virus … Continue reading

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