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When an outbreak like this happens, food inspectors race to track down the culprit. In the case of the contaminated cantaloupe, they were able to trace the salmonella back to produce from a few specific companies by checking invoices from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.
B.C. is seeing an increase in gastrointestinal illness caused by the cyclospora parasite, says the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), which mostly comes from imported produce.
Advice about ticks and how to avoid them for Canadian kids this summer.
A case of monkeypox, a virus that until recently has been rarely found outside of Africa, has been confirmed in a Vancouver resident.