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#TogetherForPublicHealth #InternationalCollaboration #PHAC #ECDC #PublicHealth
We welcomed the President of the Public Health Agency of Canada #PHAC - Nancy Hamzawi, to #ECDC today.
Together, we adopted a joint action plan setting out key areas for collaboration, building on nearly 20 years of cooperation.
#InternationalCooperation #PublicHealth #Canada #Europe
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#AvianFlu has been confirmed in a dead Canadian goose found at the Tottenham Pond in Ontario -
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
@ctvnewsbarrie.bsky.social
@barrie360.bsky.social
#PHAC
#SimcoeMuskokaDistrictHealthUnit
#SMDHU
#Tottenham
barrie360.com/canada-goose...
#Cdnpoli. Due to the fact that my pharmacy closes at 6pm I phoned #LondonDrugs to ask a drug interaction question. The pharmacist kindly offered to look up the info for me but when she came back on the line she said her source was the #CDC. No one should trust CDC guidance under Trump. #PHAC please.
6/10 HOW ARE WE TRACKING THIS?
Tracking a virus across Canada requires a massive network.
"Canada’s Interagency Surveillance Program for Avian Influenza in Wildlife" was formed in 2005, linking the #CWHC, #CFIA, #EnvironmentCanada, #ParksCanada, #PHAC, and #universities.
#Science #Surveillance
#PHAC & @ipaccanada.bsky.social, on your watch, eh?
🇨🇦Canadians look forward to your #Resignations -
@mark-carney.bsky.social
2/17 WHY WAS THE STATUS LOST?
"Elimination" is the interruption of #endemic #virus #transmission for 12 straight months.
Canada failed this test. #PHAC confirmed "sustained transmission of the same #measles virus strain in #Canada for a period of more than one year."
👉 Measles is now endemic. 👈
The Pan American Health Organization ( #PAHO ) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada ( #PHAC ) that Canada has lost its #measles elimination status after a year of sustained transmission.
The US could face the same risk if it's cases continue through January.
More here ⤵️
5/8 THE OFFICIAL WORD
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is more cautious, telling CBC News it's "too early to determine" what the season will look like.
PHAC notes that data from the Southern Hemisphere is "not a 'direct predictor'" for Canada.
#PHAC
Interesting that in the #PHAC layoffs this week, all the science directors of the National Microbiology Lab (you know, the PhDs who actually do the work) got notices but comms people didn't...
🧑⚕️PHAC Cutting Hundreds Of Jobs As Part Of 'Post-Pandemic Recalibration' ✂️
✂️Cuts Are Not Related To Government's Overall Plan To Shrink Public Sector Spending🤑
#PublicHealth #PHAC #HealthCare #Canada #MarkCarney #CutBacks #LayOffs #Government
What really also needs to be looked at is how #PHAC subcontracted that program out without making sure that they were meeting their obligations. As I read this article, I was shocked at some of the comments from former employees of the company managing the program. The Feds need accountability.
Long-tailed macaques in transport crates being unloaded at Montreal-Mirabel airport on July 15, 2025 after gruelling transport from Cambodia. Photo Credit: Denis Germain / Animal Protection Party of Canada
Hundreds of #EndangeredMonkeys Arrive in #Canada 🇨🇦 for Research Despite Public Health Risk
#Cdnpoli #SkyTaxi #Cambodia #Montreal #Quebec #polqc #polcan #CITES #PHAC #HealthCanada #SignEPetition #AnimalCruelty #AnimalTesting #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights
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globalnews.ca/news/1116848... “Canada has held #measles elimination status for nearly 30 years — but that could be gone by the fall.
If the current outbreaks keep growing the way they have been, Canada could lose that status by October 2025, according to a recent risk update from #PHAC.
globalnews.ca/news/11168480/measles-el... “Canada has held #measles elimination status for nearly 30 years — but that could be gone by the fall.
If the current outbreaks keep growing the way they have been, Canada could lose that status by October 2025 […]
Vaccine opposition is a trust issue that goes beyond solely putting out factual information. Our latest short video in the "Repeatable" series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuT...
The written research summary (En & Fr):
trustmakers-training.ca/2025/04/24/h...
#covid #vaccines #healthcanada #phac
Demands: 1. That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all. 2. That schools and other public buildings be guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that politicians have already arranged for themselves with tax money. 3. That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved. 4. Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions. 5. Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other. If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging @inneiennyfas.bsky.social,
We are currently demonstrating in 🇸🇪, 🇩🇪, 🇬🇧, and 🇨🇦 - these are our demands.
Join us using #CallForPublicHealthAction, reskeet + like!
The pandemic is not over
#canadasky
#GovCanHealth
#CPHO_Canada
#PHAC
@canadiangreens.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
@liberalca.bsky.social
www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en...
Demands: 1. That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all. 2. That schools and other public buildings be guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that politicians have already arranged for themselves with tax money. 3. That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved. 4. Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions. 5. Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other. If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging @inneiennyfas.bsky.social,
We are currently demonstrating in 🇸🇪, 🇩🇪, 🇬🇧, and 🇨🇦 - these are our demands.
Join us using #CallForPublicHealthAction, reskeet + like!
@GovCanHealth
@CPHO_Canada
#canadasky
#GovCanHealth
#CPHO_Canada
#PHAC
@canadiangreens.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
@liberalca.bsky.social
www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en...
Demands: 1. That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all. 2. That schools and other public buildings be guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that politicians have already arranged for themselves with tax money. 3. That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved. 4. Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions. 5. Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other. If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging @inneiennyfas.bsky.social,
We are currently demonstrating in 🇸🇪, 🇩🇪, 🇬🇧, and 🇨🇦 - these are our demands.
Join us using #CallForPublicHealthAction, reskeet + like!
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is not over!
#canadasky
#GovCanHealth
#CPHO_Canada
#PHAC
@canadiangreens.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
@liberalca.bsky.social
www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en...
Can the Canadian Public Health Agency of Canada #PHAC please tell me when we're going to declare a public health emergency and require US visitors to provide proof of #MMR #vaccination?
And share the limited info they do have on US bird-flu? Migration season is around the corner.
Si en cap moment necessiten un recurs que es relacioni amb #patogens i característiques, #riscbiologic, #biocontenció, #bioseguretat o #bioprotecció, i han perdut la nansa del @CDCgov (una molt mala mesura de Trump) els recomano encaridament #PHAC. Un recurs excel·lent. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Demands: 1. That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all. 2. That schools and other public buildings be guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that politicians have already arranged for themselves with tax money. 3. That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved. 4. Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions. 5. Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other. If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging @inneiennyfas.bsky.social,
We are currently demonstrating in 🇸🇪, 🇩🇪, 🇬🇧, and 🇨🇦 - these are our demands.
Join us using #CallForPublicHealthAction, reskeet + like!
@GovCanHealth
@CPHO_Canada
#canadasky
#GovCanHealth
#CPHO_Canada
#PHAC
@canadiangreens.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
@liberalca.bsky.social
www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en...
https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/clinical-obesity-25 Flow diagram for diagnosing obesity from The Lancet. Infographic titled ‘Excess body fat?’ outlines criteria for confirming excess body fat. It provides three diagnostic options: 1) at least one measurement of body size and BMI, 2) at least two measurements of body size regardless of BMI, and 3) direct body fat measurement via methods like a DEXA scan. For body size measurements, three thresholds are defined: waist circumference (≥102 cm for men, ≥88 cm for women), waist-to-hip ratio (>0.90 for men, >0.85 for women), and waist-to-height ratio (>0.50 for all). It notes that excess body fat can also be pragmatically assumed if BMI is >40 kg/m².
Great to see renewed calls to redefine obesity by waist circumference. But how do we measure it in practice? I just rediscovered my 20-year-old #PHAC tape measure.📏
Go #ImplementationScience. #PublicHealth #Obesity @thelancet.bsky.social
Demands: 1. That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all. 2. That schools and other public buildings be guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that politicians have already arranged for themselves with tax money. 3. That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved. 4. Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions. 5. Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other. If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging @inneiennyfas.bsky.social,
We are currently demonstrating in 🇸🇪, 🇩🇪, 🇬🇧, and 🇨🇦 - these are our demands.
Join us using #CallForPublicHealthAction, reskeet + like!
#canadasky
#GovCanHealth
#CPHO_Canada
#PHAC
@canadiangreens.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
@liberalca.bsky.social
