News and updates from our medical health office.
View the Population and Public Health report: Impacts of extreme heat events on emergency department visits and deaths in Fraser Health, 2021. Published on March 25, 2022.
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Jun 24 2021The heat season is having an early start this year and the temperature forecast from Environment Canada indicates Western Canada will be facing above normal temperatures this summer.
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Mar 30 2021On March 29, 2021, Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) issued a precautionary recommendation that AstraZeneca (COVISHIELD) COVID-19 vaccines temporarily not be offered to those less than 55 years of age in Canada.
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Mar 17 2021Public Health has noted a recent uptick in cases of TB that are part of a genomically-linked cluster among people who are under-housed.
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Mar 15 2021Please return all your open and unopened doses of publically funded influenza vaccine received from Public Health back to your local public health unit by May 1, 2021.