Currently, about 22% of immigrants to Canada have a tuberculosis (TB), but very few were infected within the 2 preceding years, which is the period in which the risk for progression to TB disease is the highest, new research shows. An analysis of country-specific data and Canadian census data showed that in […]
Health Canada approved Medicago’s COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, which uses GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant to boost immune response, making it the first approval for the plant-based-manufacture shot anywhere in the world. The two-dose vaccine has been approved for people aged 18 to 64 years, the health agency said in a notice https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/drugs-vaccines-treatments/vaccines/medicago.html. […]
Canada paused use of the AstraZeneca-University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine on Monday for people under age 55 after concerns linked to rare blood clots, according to The Associated Press. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization, the vaccine advisory group in Canada, recommended the pause for safety reasons. “There is substantial […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to send roughly 4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine that it is not using to Mexico and Canada in loan deals with the two countries, yielding to requests to share vaccines with allies. Mexico will receive 2.5 million doses of the vaccine […]
