Health committee  Guillain–Barré is something that happens. It is rare, as you've mentioned, and it is associated with all kinds of different viral infections. There's a small number of cases of Guillain–Barré in Canada every year. We're watching that and looking to see if there has been any incre

Health committee  That again is a good question. It's difficult. If you don't look for it, you don't know if a person has it. I would suspect the vast majority of people in Canada who are infected will come back from having travelled with no symptoms or with mild symptoms and they won't get tested

Health committee  That's a very good question. Thanks for clarifying that if I wasn't clear. The recommendations that came from CATMAT, the experts we brought together, were that men coming back should use condoms for a two-month period if they're having sex with somebody who could get pregnant.

Health committee  No, we don't, not yet. We're learning. As I said, science so far tells us two weeks, but it may be longer. We don't know.

Health committee  That's another excellent question. The Zika virus originated in Africa and in Asia. As you mentioned it was first detected there in 1947, but it was not in the Americas. This virus is a slightly different strain. I believe the genetic similarity is about 99% or 98%. In the Amer

Health committee  Okay.

Health committee  We do use Facebook consistently, yes.

Health committee  Absolutely.

Health committee  Or by travelling to the country....

Health committee  Yes, but that's our knowledge currently. That's correct.

Health committee  That's an excellent question. Whenever one of these events happens, we do a risk assessment, so we look at the organism, look at transmission models, look at the outcomes, look at if there are ways to prevent it, if there is a vaccine. We look at all of those things and do a ris

Health committee  We've been working directly with WHO. Dr. Theresa Tam, who is the deputy chief public health officer, is in Geneva as we speak discussing what's going to happen from a scientific perspective, so our contributions at this point in time to WHO in particular have been expertise, etc

Health committee  You would expect that. Typically the first trimester is when the fetus is most susceptible. It happens with other viral infections, exposure to chemicals, exposure to alcohol, or exposure to any sort of thing. That's what you expect, though there is also evidence to suggest it ca

Health committee  It's a concern only in pregnant women or only in men who then have sex with someone or get someone pregnant. That's when it's a concern because, you're right; 80% majority don't know they're infected, and if they don't know, why would they think about it? Part of what we've had i

Health committee  I'm not aware of that. The research I've seen is two weeks. If it's 62 days, I'd like to see that.