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Health officials in Canada close some hospitals to all patients but those with a new, contagious form of pneumonia, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). So far, the new disease has struck ...

TORONTO, April 24 -- The World Health Organization refused today to rescind its travel warning for Toronto, saying that the advisory may even extend beyond three weeks and will not be lifted until ...

TORONTO — Ruthless cuts to public health spending didn't cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), but inadequate funding of health services by Canada's federal and Ontario provincial ...

TORONTO, May 14 -- The World Health Organization today removed Toronto from the list of areas affected by the SARS virus, saying that Canadian health officials had broken the chain of transmission and ...

Many schools in the United States have canceled student trips to Toronto because of fears that their pupils might be exposed to the potentially fatal respiratory illness known as SARS. “This disease ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - An outbreak of swine flu in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, would not be as serious as the 2003 SARS epidemic, in part because authorities have been preparing for decades ...

TORONTO — The recent outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) here are shining a harsh light on the inadequacies and outright failures of neoliberal public health policies and practices.

Canada plans to scale back its airport screening for SARS, including by suspending the use of fever-detecting scanners, a World Health Organization official confirmed Wednesday. Health Minister Anne ...

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OTTAWA, April 24 (Reuters) - An outbreak of swine flu in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, would not be as serious as the 2003 SARS epidemic, in part because authorities have been preparing ...