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A ‘Tropical’ Parasitic Disease Emerges in the Canadian Arctic

By Julie Robert | McGill University Health Center on Apr 29, 2016   Featured, Health, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

A ‘Tropical’ Parasitic Disease Emerges in the Canadian Arctic

An outbreak of an intestinal parasite common in the tropics, known as Cryptosporidium, has been identified for the first time in the Arctic. The discovery was made in Nunavik, Quebec, by a team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), in collaboration with the Nunavik Department of Public Health, Institut National […]

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