WHAT’S NEW

Commemorating World Hand Hygiene Day 2025
Promote hand hygiene as an essential infection control practice while being mindful of appropriate glove use to reduce environmental and climate impact from glove waste. To promote this initiative, check out our provincial poster here to use in your setting or facility.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza – Interim Provincial Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Health Care Settings
For PICNet’s recommendations, click here.

Policy Communiqué: IPC Measures for Preventing Viral Respiratory Illness
For the BC Ministry of Health’s Policy Communiqué on Infection Prevention and Control Measures for Preventing Viral Respiratory Illness, click here
Resources
IPAC ADVISORIES
We provide relevant links to BCCDC updates on emerging respiratory viruses.
Updated information and infection prevention and control recommendations for VHF, including Ebola virus disease in BC health-care settings.
Updated outbreak details about Avian influenza and revised IPC recommendations for BC healthcare.