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The Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion was established in 2008 by the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion Act, 2007. [2] The OAHPP is an agent of the Crown (i.e. a Crown agency) and is considered an arm's-length government agency.
Powassan virus is an RNA virus split into two separate lineages: Lineage I, labeled as the "prototype" lineage; and Lineage II, the deer tick virus (DTV) lineage. [9] Lineage II has the most genetic variation, which indicates that it is most likely the ancestral lineage that split as a result of positive natural selection. [9]
HealthMap is used both as an early detection system and supports situational awareness by providing current, highly local information about outbreaks, even from areas relatively invisible to traditional global public health efforts. Currently, HealthMap monitors information sources in English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French, Portuguese, and ...
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Most of these pathogens require passage through vertebrate hosts as part of their life cycle. Tick-borne infections in humans, farm animals, and companion animals are primarily associated with wildlife animal reservoirs. [5] Many tick-borne infections in humans involve a complex cycle between wildlife animal reservoirs and tick vectors. [5]
In Ontario, under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, a public health unit (PHU) is an official health agency established by a municipality. [2] PHUs administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development, health education for all age ...
The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit is a public health clinic located in North Bay, Ontario. [1] The 150-person, [ 2 ] 58,000 sq ft (5,400 m 2 ) facility comprises multiple health care offices, clinical and community spaces.
Dermacentor albipictus, the winter tick, is a species of hard tick that parasitizes many different mammal species in North America.It is commonly associated with cervid species such as elk (Cervus canadensis), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), mule deer (O. hemionus) and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) but is primarily known as a serious pest of moose (Alces alces).