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WHO seeks expert advice on the ethics of using experimental Ebola drugs

TORONTO—On Monday experts from around the world will converge, by telephone, to try to chart a path through a mine …

MERS 101: If you’ve missed it until now, there’s a new disease afoot

  TORONTO – It may have been tugging at your attention, popping up in newspaper articles or online news reports …

Expert panel convenes to advise WHO on whether MERS is a public health emergency

Has the mushrooming outbreak of the new MERS coronavirus reached the point where it is an international public health emergency? …

Surge in MERS cases mainly an infection control problem in Saudi hospitals: WHO

TORONTO – The sweeping surge in MERS cases over the past five weeks appears in large measure to be due …

WHO scientists head to Saudi Arabia to help with growing MERS outbreak

  TORONTO – Scientists from the World Health Organization are travelling to Saudi Arabia to help investigate this month’s large …

MERS virus hasn’t changed, not reason for surge in Saudi cases: expert

  A German coronavirus expert says the virus responsible for the MERS infection appears not to have changed. Dr. Christian …

Exported MERS cases ‘very likely,’ WHO warns; Canada on the lookout, PHAC says

  TORONTO – Countries should be on the lookout for cases of MERS in people returning from Middle Eastern countries …

1 in 3 Canadians suffered some form of child abuse; linked to mental disorders

  Photo courtesy of Canadian Medical Association Journal   TORONTO— One in three adult Canadians suffered some form of child …

WHO concerned by sharp rise in MERS cases; 75 per of recent cases human spread

The World Health Organization expressed concern Wednesday about the recent sharp rise in MERS cases in Saudi Arabia and the …

SARS revisited? Sharp jump in cases, hospital outbreaks raise MERS concerns

TORONTO – It’s beginning to feel like SARS revisited. For some of the scientists and doctors who helped the world …

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