Follow Us

WHAT’S NEW

Photo Credit: Getty Images

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.

Photo Credit: Getty Images

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza – Interim Provincial Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Health Care Settings

For PICNet’s recommendations, click here.

Photo Credit: Getty Images

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

IPAC ADVISORIES

Ongoing

We provide relevant links to BCCDC updates on emerging respiratory viruses.

June 28, 2023

Updated information and infection prevention and control recommendations for VHF, including Ebola virus disease in BC health-care settings.

June 28, 2023

Updated outbreak details about Avian influenza and revised IPC recommendations for BC healthcare.