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FINALLY! Travel season is upon us. While new adventures certainly await, make sure you’re setting yourself up to get the most out of your trip without the souvenir of local illnesses.

Home away from home: recommended immunizations for travelling within Canada

2025 marks the year Canadians stay home – that is, travel within Canada and discovering its incredible national parks. While routine vaccinations are recommended, immunizations are not generally required ...  Read more

Illnesses like measles, whooping cough, and influenza are returning with a vengeance, after years of lower infection rates.

Health & Wellness Canada describes the bigger picture:

“The convergence of global travel, climate change, and evolving microbial resistance has created perfect conditions for disease re-emergence. Diseases once considered nearly eradicated in Canada now appear in clusters across urban and rural areas… What makes these re-emerging diseases particularly concerning is their ability to spread rapidly through populations with waning ...  Read more

On a good day, winter daycare drop-offs can be challenging. There are boots to tie, snow pants to button, missing mittens to find, and toddlers to negotiate with to get out the front door, all before the sun even rises. Throw a flu into the mix and now it’s a party: child caregivers know that daycare, particularly in the winter, quickly transforms into an infinity pool of viruses that take weeks to taper out.

And let’s just admit it: with children being encouraged to share all day long, they do just that... by passing a virus on to their parents. But fret not! There are defences to leverage when being attacked on all fronts. Vaccinating children can help significantly reduce the spread of seasonal viruses at daycare ...  Read more