Background: Epidemiologic studies show that high temperatures are related to mortality, but
little is known about the exposure-response function and the lagged effect of heat. We report …

In Canada in late 1987 there was an outbreak of an acute illness characterized by
gastrointestinal symptoms and unusual neurologic abnormalities among persons who had eaten …

Because of the increasing concerns about climate change and deadly heatwaves in the past,
the health effects of hot weather are fast becoming a global public health challenge for the …

Background: Mortality during sustained periods of hot weather is generally regarded as
being in excess of what would be predicted from smooth temperature-mortality gradients …

The current issue of Eurosurveillance updates and provides additional context to the report
in early 2004 of an estimated 22 080 excess deaths in England and Wales, France, Italy and …

Background High ambient summer temperatures have been shown to influence daily mortality
in cities across Europe. Quantification of the population mortality burden attributable to …

Background: Little attention has been paid to how heat-related health effects vary with the
micro-urban variation of outdoor temperatures. This study explored whether people located in …

The purpose of this study was to examine food safety knowledge of trained food handlers
certified under the FOODSAFE training program in British Columbia, Canada and to evaluate …

Background: British Columbia, Canada, was impacted by a record-setting heat dome in early
summer 2021. Most households in greater Vancouver do not have air conditioning, and …

Objectives. We compared the ability of several heat–health warning systems to predict days
of heat-associated mortality using common data sets. Methods. Heat–health warning …