Two sisters in southwest Nova Scotia still can’t quite believe how quickly they lost their parents, who died within a…
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A six-year-old boy from Dartmouth, N.S., has died after contracting an invasive strep A infection and his father is now encouraging other…
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Infectious diseases like COVID-19, group A streptococcus and measles are making the rounds in Canadian communities. Health-care experts are watching…
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Canada is experiencing a record number of cases of dangerous, fast-moving strep infections. Invasive group A strep, or iGAS, is a…
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Nova Scotia Health is seeing an increase in the number of cases of invasive strep A infections reported across the…
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Kim Wetmore is urging people to go to the hospital or get a test if you’ve got symptoms of strep A. She…
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This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers…
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B.C. health authorities are warning that group A strep was identified in four children who have died since mid-December, and…
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Canada is seeing a record number of cases of invasive Group A strep, a bacterial infection that kills roughly one in…
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COVID-19 has killed 17 more New Brunswickers, including six over the holidays, while influenza has claimed nine lives. These are the first…
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