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Travelling with children

… How can I protect my children from malaria? Malaria is a disease caused by mosquito bites and tiny parasites that get …
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Mercury spills in residential settings

… nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. In severe cases, lung diseases such as pneumonitis, necrotizing bronchiolitis and …
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Sun safety for children

… exhaustion, skin cancers, cataracts and other eye diseases. During the warm summer months, a child’s sensitive …
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Cryptosporidium infection

… your health care provider. This includes people born with diseases that severely affect their immune system; people …
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Contact with blood or body fluids Protecting against infection

… for 1 full month. To help protect you from hepatitis B disease, you may be given a hepatitis B vaccine and …
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Wildfire Its effects on drinking water quality

… health and safety around fire retardants, see BC Centre for Disease Control Wildfires notes: Fire …
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Quitting smoking

… your risk of smoking-caused illness, like heart and lung diseases, throat and oral cancer, and emphysema Improve your …