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Vaccination Coverage Goals and Vaccine Preventable Disease Reduction Targets by 2025
As part of the National Immunization Strategy objectives for 2016-2021, vaccination coverage goals and vaccine preventable disease reduction targets were set based on... -
Teens, meet Vaccines
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Infographic Vaccines Work
This table illustrates the effectiveness of vaccination by comparing the number of cases of six vaccine-preventable diseases in Canada before and after the introduction of each... -
Vaccines for children
Vaccines are essential to help end the pandemic. It's important for everyone to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when it's their turn. Vaccines help lower your child's risk of... -
Infographic Food-related illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths in Canada
"4 million Canadians get sick each year from contaminated food. Over 11,500 hospitalizations and 240 deaths occur each year due to food-related illnesses. Numbers includes both... -
Fluwatch 2013-2014
The 2013-14 influenza season activity levels data indicates activity level reported by epidemiological week; The 2013-14 influenza season respiratory virus detection indicates... -
Moving Forward on a Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy
COVID-19 has highlighted issues that make it a challenge to collect, share, and use health data for the benefit of Canadians. 'Health data' includes public health, health system... -
International Health Regulations - Joint External Evaluation of Canada...
This report describes Canada's progress on 48 indicators across 19 technical areas. It provides a unique overview of Canada's health system and current state of public health... -
Emergency preparedness and response
Public health security and pandemic preparedness. -
COVID-19 Wastewater
People infected with COVID-19 can shed the virus through their stool, even if they don't have any symptoms. Testing a community's sewage (wastewater) can tell us if COVID-19 is... -
Challenges to developing a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus
Research: Overview of the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine candidate pipeline in Canada. Published on Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR), volume 46-4, April 2, 2020. -
CCDR: Volume 42-5, May 5, 2016: Zika Virus
The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. -
Biosafety Directive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Human T-cell...
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) are examples of RG3 pathogens where the pathogen risk and CL assessments have been... -
Surveillance of West Nile virus
Learn about the different types of surveillance for West Nile virus and the reported number of cases in humans. -
Respiratory Virus Detections in Canada
The Respiratory Virus Detection Surveillance System collects data from select laboratories across Canada on the number of tests performed and the number of tests positive for... -
Respiratory Virus Report - 2019 Season
The Respiratory Virus Detection Surveillance System collects data from select laboratories across Canada on the number of tests performed and the number of tests positive for... -
Zika Virus
Zika virus symptoms and treatment, prevention and risks, risks during pregnancy, what men need to know, and travel recommendations. -
Download COVID Alert today
COVID Alert is Canada's free exposure notification application. COVID Alert helps us break the cycle of infection. The application can let people know of possible exposures... -
National report: Apparent opioid-related deaths in Canada (released March 2018)
"The opioid crisis has affected every part of the country, but there are clear differences in death rates and the substances involved across provinces and territories. According... -
Exposure, non-exposure and other reporting data from licensed facilities in Canada
Under the Government of Canada’s Human Pathogens and Toxins Act, facilities where controlled activities with Risk Group 2, 3 or 4 pathogens are carried out must have a pathogen...