Here’s how to keep cool and stay safe during a heat wave
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(Rio Yamat/ CTV News) — Scorching heat across the U.S. already has caused more than a dozen deaths in Texas alone and led to mounting misery for millions of people from the Pacific Northwest to the South.

And the official end of summer is still months away.

Here’s a guide on how to keep cool and stay safe in the punishing  …

Tick season has arrived in Canada — how ticks spread Lyme disease
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(Elizabeth Di Filippo/ Yahoo News) — Tick season has officially arrived in Canada.

Ticks thrive in temperatures 4°C and higher, but they have been shown to survive in colder climates. With warm weather on the horizon, the risk of contracting a tick bite is higher, as black-legged ticks are most active in the spring.

Ticks  …

Summer starts in Europe with new Covid wave
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(Eliza Mackintosh/ CNN News) — European countries are seeing a significant increase in Covid-19 cases spurred by highly infectious subvariants of Omicron, raising fears of a new global wave of the disease as immunity declines and the summer travel season gets underway.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention  …