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Medbroadcast: 10-24-2004
TORONTO (CP) - Scientists in Winnipeg are toiling over two viruses that are giving experts in the flu world more than a few sleepless nights - the H5 and H7 avian influenza strains, considered the biggest threats to cause the next flu pandemic.
VICTORIA (CP) - Advocates for the elderly say Canada urgently needs a national strategy on Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias.
TORONTO (CP) - Health authorities in Canada are trying to determine what measures need to be taken to ensure the safety of the country's blood supply after learning a little-understood primate virus can be transmitted through blood transfusion.
DUNCAN, B.C. (CP) - A Victoria woman charged with helping two others commit suicide told an undercover RCMP officer she held one of the women's hands when she died and that her death was fast and painless.
GENEVA (AP) - Ireland - like the United States - is struggling to find enough flu vaccine following the shutdown of a British factory, but other European countries mostly have no shortages, an Associated Press survey found Thursday.
PARIS (AP) - A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
MONTREAL (CP) - An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec Wednesday as an 'epidemic' that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Faced with a deadly C. difficile epidemic in Quebec, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday it will begin tracking the bacterium in 25 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
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