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Jan Hajek

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About Jan Hajek

Jan Hajek is an infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver General Hospital and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia. His subspecialty is tropical medicine and global health. He has worked in Toronto during SARS, in Newfoundland during the H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic, in West Africa during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and more recently on the COVID ward at Vancouver General Hospital.

4 Articles

The risk for pandemics is increasing

After three years, COVID-19 is slipping from our collective consciousness, fading into the background, including its origins as a zoonotic infection linked to our use of animals.
Opinion | January 12th 2023

The risky business of chicken and pig farms in Canada

It is of critical concern that our next pandemic is being hastened by our use of animals susceptible to influenza, especially chickens and pigs.
Opinion | May 27th 2022

Large mink fur farms threaten our COVID-19 health efforts

The risks associated with continuing industrial mink farming outweigh the limited societal benefits, write infectious disease specialists Jan Hajek, Alastair McAlpine and Victor Leung.
Opinion | December 16th 2021

Federal ag gag bill fizzles out after committee study

A private member's bill sponsored by federal Conservative MP John Barlow co-opted genuine concerns about infectious disease as a pretext for targeting animal protection advocates, write Jan Hajek and Kaitlyn Mitchell.
Opinion | July 6th 2021

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