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The Common Cold: Causes, Symptoms, and Remedies
This video provides an informative overview of the common cold, its symptoms, causes, and prevention. It highlights the fact that the common cold is a viral infection that affects the upper respiratory tract and is really common in...
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Biological Vectors and Infectious Diseases
REAL WORLD SCIENCE: Biological Vectors and Infectious Diseases Using incredible videography, photos, animation and graphics, this information-packed video introduces students to biological vectors. Viewers will learn that biological...
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Various types diseases
It describes communicable and non-communicable; acute and chronic; congenital and acquired; and endemic, epidemic and pandemic diseases.
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Epidemiology - the backbone of public health
Epidemiology underpins everything we do in public health and global health. Epidemiology is more than just research methods and qualitative and quantitative study design. It's about understanding the distribution of states of health and...
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Understanding Infectious Diseases and Transmission
This video provides an overview of infectious diseases and how they are transmitted. It explains the role of the immune system in fighting off harmful organisms and highlights various ways pathogens can be spread, including direct and...
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Alberta says COVID-19 vaccines won't be available until the fall
Alberta Health Services says you won't be able to get COVID-19 shots in the province until updated vaccines are available in the fall. But as the CBC's Colleen Underwood explains, that delay could put some people at risk.
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Bats likely spread coronavirus, but don’t get sick
Scientists are trying to decode why the bats that likely spread coronaviruses don’t get sick themselves so they can make it work for humans.
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Concerns about coronavirus grow ahead of Chinese New Year
There are growing concerns about a new coronavirus after Chinese officials confirm the SARS-like illness can be spread between people as millions prepare to travel for Chinese New Year.
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SARS-like virus spreads outside China
Infectious disease experts are on high alert after a SARS-like virus that’s killed at least two people in China has been confirmed in other countries.
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Fewer kids at alternative schools vaccinated
More than 10 per cent of students at some Toronto alternative schools have been exempt from vaccinations because of their parents wishes, public health data shows.
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Using viruses to fight cancer
This week in Business Planet, we will be finding out about a new approach that uses viruses in cancer treatment. Biotech expert Jean-Jacques Le Fur joins us to shed light on this new technique. Biotechnology and life sciences are used in...
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Researches Collecting Data from Sewer Waste
Researchers at MIT are collecting important health data from the feces and urine found in sewers.
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CDC urges people to get vaccinated amid resurgence of mpox
The disease is transmitted through close contact, usually skin to skin rubbing with someone who has the rash.
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Measles cases skyrocket in Europe, doctors worry it will spread here
The World Health Organization is warning of an alarming rise in cases of measles in Europe, and doctors in Canada fear the disease could easily spread to this country, too.
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Palestinians are returning to their homes in Gaza on the fourth day of the truce
Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud is in Khan Younis for the latest updates and developments on the ground in Gaza.
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Biosafety Tech Company R-Zero Aiming to Make Indoor Spaces Healthier
Ben Boyer, co-founder and executive chairman of biosafety tech company R-Zero, joined Cheddar to discuss how the company's products can help as Covid-19 cases begin to creep up.
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Montreal monkeypox cases plateauing, but officials concerned by rises elsewhere
Monkeypox cases in Montreal appear to be stabilizing, but authorities say they're worried that the numbers could go up because of the soaring number of cases in the U.S., busy tour season and a low vaccination rate.
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What to Know About the Monkeypox Outbreak
Dr. William Schaffner, the professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt Medical Center, joined Cheddar News to break down concerns about monkeypox, the World Health Organization taking a second look at the outbreak, and how it differs...
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What can people do with 1 COVID-19 vaccine dose?
Dr. Philippe Lagacé-Wiens, an infectious diseases physician, says people should follow the same precautions as before receiving their first dose of a vaccine, and he hopes that a behavioural split doesn't form between those with and...
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Opposition slams government for vaccine delays
Canada's opposition leaders attacked the federal government's COVID-19 vaccination rollout today after shipments of the Pfizer vaccine were delayed.
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Most of the 15M rapid COVID-19 tests distributed in Canada sitting unused
Experts urge hard-hit provinces to use rapid tests to detect COVID-19, including on those who have no symptoms.
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How the other vaccines in line for Canada's approval compare
Canada has other vaccines in line for approval -- how they compare to the ones already being rolled out and how COVID-19 variants are a complicating factor.
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How delays of Canada’s vaccine shipments impact provincial rollouts
Moderna says vaccine shipments to Canada will be cut in February, just as Pfizer has changed its delivery schedule. We look at how provinces are taking the bad news.
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EU approves AstraZeneca vaccine amid supply shortages, delays
The European Union has approved use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, amid criticism that vaccination is not happening fast enough.