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