The enforcement of longstanding infectious-disease protocols by hospitals could have had a significant impact on limiting the spread of SARS during two outbreaks earlier this year, a public hearing ...

A HEALTH care worker ignored advice to stay home because of possible Sars symptoms and attended a weekend funeral - putting hundreds of people at risk, an official said yesterday. A HEALTH care worker ...

Officials say they're fed up with a health-care professional who ignored his own symptoms of SARS and went to a funeral on Easter weekend, endangering hundreds of people. The man works with patients ...

A man and a woman who refused to isolate themselves after exposure to the deadly SARS virus have been ordered into quarantine by health officials who are playing tough, as cases of the disease are ...

The Italian physician who first recognized that the world was facing an outbreak of a mysterious pneumonia-like illness died Saturday in Hanoi, a victim of the inadequate medical procedures in place ...

The World Health Organization removed Toronto from its list of SARS-affected areas Wednesday, said Prime Minister Jean Chrtien. The PM announced the development in the House of Commons. Earlier in the ...

As York Region marks the one-year anniversary of its first SARS patient, the associate medical officer of health warns infectious diseases pose a continual threat to the public. “All of these new ...

TORONTO, May 24 -- Hospital workers in Toronto again strapped on masks and gowns today to confront a new SARS threat that an official warned could involve 40 people or more, weeks after Canada ...