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The federal government is investing $5-million on HIV prevention and support, a move that was praised by Manitoba's health minister at the news conference in Winnipeg Thursday.

Dr. Shelley Zieroth will serve as a new research chair in women's clinical heart health research. She said she hopes to help further health equity in Manitoba.

The extension means decisions on immigration and visa applications from residents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan will remain on hold until Sept. 28.

The outbreak began in March 2025 and lasted more than a year, with the final reported sicknesses happening in May and caused 200 lab-confirmed cases in six provinces.

Between May 1 and July 21, the province recorded 140 cases of cyclosporiasis, compared with just 40 in the same time period in 2025. 

Jan Przeranski suffers from a chronic, progressive condition that has caused swelling and infections in his arm, rendering it mostly non-functional.

The number of drug-related deaths in Manitoba has been rising again over the last several months, according to the province's chief medical examiner.

'Childhood vaccination continues to be one of our most powerful tools to prevent illness and support child health in Canada,' the agency wrote.

The jalapenos were supplied by California-based Coast Citrus Distributors, sourced from Mexico and served at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Qdoba and other restaurants.

A Quebec doctor says health-care professionals would be 'optimistically naive' to believe cases of cyclosporiasis won’t keep increasing, but there is no reason for alarm.

Ottawa is launching a temporary ban on foreign nationals entering Canada if they have visted DRC, the site of an ebola outbreak, 21 days before coming to this country.

For those who are worried about potentially ingesting the parasite, PHAC says there are some steps that can reduce risk of exposure.

Physicians are being urged to specifically consider anaplasmosis in regions with a growing prevalence of blacklegged ticks, which range in size from a poppyseed to a sesame seed.

Cyclosporiasis is an illness of the intestines caused by a parasite called cyclospora, which is only spread through eating food or drinking water that contains the parasite.

As of July 1, the CDC reported 145 cases of cyclosporiasis across 17 states from May 1 through June 16, with 20 people being hospitalized.

In a biomedicine laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal, animal protein grows in a bubbling orange solution as researchers in white lab coats take samples with large syringes.

The Canadian government announced a three-week quarantine for travellers returning from the Ebola-stricken country back in May, affecting aid workers like Lily-Madeleine Seguin.

The Treasury Board announced the change to remote work rules in February. Executive public servants returned to the office full-time in May.

A Class 1 FDA recall is when 'there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.'

The U.S. has long complained that Canada severely limits access to its dairy market through supply management, even threatening new tariffs over it. Here's what they want changed.