Public Health & Preventive Medicine

‘It’s a bit strange that at this point in the history of this virus in North America . . . that we would see a change like that now.’

Licensed in 2003, BabyBIG is the brand name for human botulism immune globulin, an IV medication that uses antibodies from volunteers vaccinated against botulism to help babies too young to fight the disease on their own.

Dr. Marcia Anderson spearheaded the project to begin voluntary collection of this data across the province.

Since March, 155 people have been reported sick with the bacterial illness after eating various brands of pistachios and pistachio-containing products, some as recently as November.

A paper published in 2000 in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology concluded that the herbicide glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is safe for humans.

The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario said it saw eight times more kids testing positive for influenza last month than it did in November last year.

The announcement on changes to the safer supply program follows a leak of documents in February that said about 60 pharmacies were involved in the illegal diversion of drugs from the safe supply program.

Dr. Ma had been ordered to repay approximately $600,000 to the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) for COVID-19 vaccinations billed between July 2021 and January 2022.