Festive viral warnings issued
Although we’ve been told that incidences of flu and covid are low, we’re now being warned to be cautious around the festive season.
-
Kate
Reply
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- vasi on Cycling rises, transit falls
- DeWolf on Looking back at Lux
- DeWolf on Cycling rises, transit falls
- DeWolf on Cycling rises, transit falls
- Ephraim on UdeM vandalized with paint
- Ian on Does the city need its own minister
- steph on Does the city need its own minister
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Bluesky feed that follows local environment news. Also available on Mastodon.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
Blork 16:15 on 2024-12-20 Permalink
I suppose that makes sense. Rates are low. Exercise caution to keep them low.
MarcG 19:41 on 2024-12-20 Permalink
For some good news, they changed the colours on the ER capacity website so that if there aren’t enough stretchers for the people who need them, it’s in Quebec blue now instead of scary red. https://www.indexsante.ca/urgences/#Montreal. Problem solved!
Mozai 00:04 on 2024-12-21 Permalink
Any signs of the bird-flu (H5N1) outbreak on the west coast showing up here?
MarcG 10:28 on 2024-12-21 Permalink
@Mozai: There’s a dashboard here that shows detections across Canada and you can see there have been 4 in Quebec since November 17th. I’m not up to speed with all of the subtleties but it seems like they’re labelled “low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) subtype H5” which appears to be different from the strains we hear about elsewhere that are considered “highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)”. Here’s a news article from Nov 19th.