http://www.bccdc.ca© 2010 BC Centre for Disease Control. All rights reserved.PHSA Web Sitewebmaster@phsa.cawebmaster@phsa.caBCCDC Channel RSS Feed 1.0http://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/news/PoisonPreventionWeek2010.htmFri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT{E6DA88D4-7F31-406E-B70D-5DAA8763A553}Unintentional poisonings in BC are all too common, affecting more than 20,000 people each year, with half of those cases in children under 6 years of age. These alarming statistics make this year’s Poison Prevention Week (March 14th – 20th) campaign all the more important. The 2010 campaign -- Out of Reach… Out of Sight -- is aimed at creating greater community awareness and providing education to prevent poisonings, as well as offering first aid steps to take in the event of an emergency.RHarryhttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/2009HealthAlerts/H1N1FluVirusHumanSwineFlu.htmThu, 25 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT{9C02E1B4-8151-4D6D-8531-7309DDB7DAF4}Latest H1N1 flu virus (human swine flu) report.RHarryhttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/news/Genome_project_Jan21.htmThu, 21 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT{512568A3-BD40-43FA-955F-117798E5B523}The BC Centre for Disease Control has launched an influenza genome sequencing project to better understand how the pandemic H1N1 flu virus has evolved in British Columbia, and may continue to evolve in the coming months.RHarryhttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/Unpasteurized_dairy_Jan5.htmTue, 05 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT{EF0855EC-5648-4042-9649-A84E6E4AC82E}The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is advising British Columbians to discard any unpasteurized dairy products from the Home on the Range raw dairy in Chilliwack.RHarryhttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/2009HealthAlerts/H1N1AllEligibleMHLS.htmFri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT{D3069F84-AC33-431C-BE70-61584470D836}As of November 20, 2009, all British Columbians who need and want to be immunized against the H1N1 flu virus will be eligible to receive the vaccine.iroehttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/2009HealthAlerts/H1N1VaccineGroupsExpanding.htmFri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT{604EF7D2-D208-4F8C-944C-6BCE4C62A165}VICTORIA – More British Columbians will be eligible to receive the H1N1 vaccine beginning Monday, Nov. 16 – including first responders, healthy children, seniors with chronic health conditions and additional health care workers.iroehttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/2009HealthAlerts/Oct_30_H1N1_vaccine.htmFri, 30 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT{6AC654CA-1BE7-4205-8629-8EA21C69E060}Despite unexpected delays in the manufacture of pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine in Canada, all British Columbians who need or want the vaccine will be able to receive it before the end of the year as has been said previously, Minister of Healthy Living and Sport Ida Chong and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall reiterated today.RHarryhttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/2009HealthAlerts/Tamiflu_Oct23.htmFri, 23 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT{87080DDC-E0DC-48ED-8D8B-ECCB397DDF0B}As British Columbia continues to experience increased pandemic H1N1 influenza activity, health officials are reiterating important messages regarding the use of antivirals to treat infection from this novel virus.RHarryhttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/2009HealthAlerts/H1N1_vaccine_Oct21.htmWed, 21 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT{C78D1647-2364-4916-9508-A9A0329C1F36}Following today’s approval by Health Canada regulators, the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine will be made available to British Columbians beginning the week of Oct. 26, announced Minister of Healthy Living and Sport Ida Chong and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall.RHarryhttp://www.bccdc.ca/resourcematerials/newsandalerts/healthalerts/2009HealthAlerts/WNv_Aug26.htmWed, 26 Aug 2009 08:00:00 GMT{1EE05851-7EF7-49DA-B652-65D1D651B22D}British Columbia has confirmed its first indigenous human case of West Nile virus infection, and laboratory tests are underway to determine if another person has been infected as well.RHarry