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Health committee I believe the Canadian Blood Services has provided some of the response to this question as well. There has been no evidence to date of any Lyme disease in the blood supply. While not every blood donor is tested, Canadian Blood Services screens out people who are sick. They also
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee Certainly from the Public Health Agency, and I can probably say from the CIHR perspective, we welcome the dedicated funding. That's the first time we've received it. We announced the $4 million for the research network. On top of that there is $3.7 million for other activities.
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee Public awareness and detection of Lyme disease is a really important aspect of the federal framework. As you've said, it may not cost very much, but you can actually do quite a bit by looking for positive ticks, for example, in the community and by partnering with different organ
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee There are different pockets of funding, if you like. The $4 million for the research network is still at play, so the discussion on how that spending is going to be done is currently being reviewed and evaluated. That's for our research network. Of the funding that we received u
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee I think the treatment guidelines are provided by the infectious disease expertise in the country, so they are not actually part of what the agency does. The research network the minister has spoken about has devoted its attention to looking at diagnosis and treatment. On the dia
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee First of all, I want to acknowledge the work of this committee. There are quite a number of recommendations. I think the government will provide its formal response to those recommendations, and that might address some of the questions you're asking. Regarding some of the exampl
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee Right now, we have protocols in place, together with the provinces and territories, on isolating cases. Certainly, doing rigorous contact tracing and monitoring is the key to preventing any spread from a case in Canada. That, I think, is of primary importance. For other complete
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee I know that the World Health Organization is actively in China looking at the evidence. That is a very key piece of evidence that we are trying to ascertain. We do know something about coronaviruses, given that we've had other coronaviruses that cause anything from a mild illness
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee I know that the committee is meeting tomorrow morning. I think we need to await the actual deliberations. The final decisions are up to the director general of the World Health Organization.
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee As our president said earlier, 99% of the cases are in China. Of the cases that are related to travel to affected areas of China, there have been, I think, about three instances of human-to-human transmission in a very limited way among close contacts. Every country that's had th
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee In Canada we've had three cases. They're all connected to travel to Wuhan. In the other countries, the vast majority are connected to Wuhan. Maybe one of the cases is connected to another area in China. Currently in two countries that are looking at their cases, Japan and Germa
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee As the president already indicated, those very specific processes are still being planned. What I do know, given my communication with the World Health Organization, is that China is not letting anyone leave Wuhan, so there's that sort of containment. Anyone who leaves—and that c
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee Based on data coming out of China, about 20% of cases are what they define as severe. That could mean pneumonia. We know that in terms of the number of deaths, there have been just over 130 out of over 6,000 reported cases. We currently cannot estimate the actual case vitality ra
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee Relative to something like SARS, it is lower, but as I said, there are 20% who might have a serious illness. We don't know what the clinical cause is. That is what we are watching very carefully.
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam
Health committee That is what we call the incubation period, and it seems to be a whole range, anywhere from one day to 14 days. In the majority of cases—and that number is recalibrated every single day—the general incubation period is estimated to be five to six days right now, but you will have
January 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Theresa Tam