Chikungunya

• Older adults in U.S. urged to skip this travel vaccine. What about Canada?

  The United States is advising travellers aged 60 and up to hold off on getting the chikungunya vaccine while it looks into reports of possible side effects.

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  May 13, 2025
  
• Doctors tie Zika virus to heart problems in some adults

  For the first time, doctors have tied infection with the Zika virus to possible new heart problems in adults. The evidence so far is only in eight people in Venezuela, and is not enough to prove a link.

  Health

  Mar 10, 2017
  
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• Zika not only virus of concern to travellers

  Zika isn't the only mosquito-borne bug that poses a health risk to Canadians travelling to vacation hotspots, even though the virus is raising the most alarm due to a possible link with microcephaly in newborns.

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  Feb 17, 2016
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• Caribbean blues: Mosquito virus is sickening more travellers

  Thousands of travelers to the Caribbean and nearby regions are coming home with an unwanted souvenir: a mosquito-borne virus that recently settled there.

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  Feb 6, 2015
• Chikungunya: What you should know before your tropical vacation

  If you are heading south this winter, be aware that a mosquito-borne disease has taken hold of much of the Caribbean and Central and South America.

  Canada

  Nov 21, 2014
• How many Canadians have had kissing bug disease?

  They’re parasites that feed on people’s faces in the night. While the infection they spread typically occurs in Latin America, have cases surfaced in Canada?

  Canada

  Nov 14, 2014
• ‘Kissing bug disease’: What Canadians need to know about Chagas

  They’re parasites that feed on people’s faces in the still of the night. And while the infection they spread typically occurs in Latin America, cases of Chagas disease are now popping up in the United States.

  Environment

  Nov 10, 2014
• Gates Foundation boosts aid to stamp out malaria; targets Ebola

  Philanthropist Bill Gates says he wants to end malaria in his lifetime and will give more money toward that goal.

  Health

  Nov 2, 2014
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• Dominican Republic says mosquito-borne virus sickens nearly 500,000

  Health Ministry official Carmen Adames says those infected with the chikungunya virus includes 109 newborns.

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  Sep 19, 2014
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• First cases chikungunya virus spread by mosquitoes reported in U.S.

  Health officials are reporting that for the first time, U.S. mosquitoes are spreading a virus that has been tearing through the Caribbean.

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  Jul 17, 2014