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Answering your questions about drinking water quality.

Access a list of zoonotic diseases, which are diseases transmissible from animals to humans. Find out about programs in place to prevent and control their spread.

Link to the organization that works to reduce the risk of bloodborne pathogens and biological injuries caused by blood transfusions and tissue and organ transplantations.

Watch this short video set in Tanzania to discover the importance of community involvement in effective health systems.

Link to a list of reports, organized by year of publication, on communicable diseases.

Access Canada’s Drug Strategy to find information on different types of drugs and people affected by substance abuse.

Link to publications about substance abuse on a variety of topics, such as youth, HIV/AIDS and driving while impaired.

Find information on all poisonous plants in Canada through an interactive search or in lists organized by Botanical and Common names.

Visit Canada's central coordinating point for responding to public health security issues, including natural events and disasters and accidents or criminal and terrorist acts involving explosives, chemicals, radioactive substances or biological threats.

Find information on childhood immunization, a safe and effective way to give children immunity against a number of potentially serious diseases such as polio and tetanus.

Explore the accomplishments of Dr. John Amyot, whose many contributions to the science of public health include the filtration and chlorination of water, production of vaccines and the pasteurization of milk (text and video).

Drinking untreated water in the great outdoors can make you ill. Take these precautions to make sure the water you drink is safe.

Information on water chlorination including health effects, risks and benefits.

Link to resources on E. Coli, such as articles, statistics and reports.

Visit Tanzania with this video on the Demographic Surveillance System, part of a series about Canadian-Tanzanian collaboration that aims to improve health systems.

Describes where and how fluorides occur, sources of human exposure, and dental and health effects on humans.

Link to an archive of the pdf versions of research reports on smoking.

Link to a variety of information on immunization, including immunization schedules for children and recommendations for travel vaccines.

Meet Dr. Hermy Lior, who was instrumental in developing research tests and methods to distinguish different types of the bacteria E. coli and Campylobacter (text and video).

Link to information addressing concerns about vaccine safety.

Discover the use of insecticide-treated bednets in the war on malaria, with this video about the Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP).

Find authoritative information on pandemic, avian and seasonal influenza, including flu detection and surveillance, planning and response and the latest news.

Learn about zoonoses, which are diseases that are passed from animals to humans, and find out how they are transmitted.

Discover the effects that alcohol can have on the body, learn how breathalyzers work and find tips on how to drink responsibly.

Read descriptions of several reports on smoking or access the full pdf versions.

Link to travel medicine information on international disease outbreaks, immunization recommendations, general health advice and disease-specific treatment and prevention guidelines.

Lists publications on water quality and your health.