To be brutally honest, I was terrified to be on television. I usually don't get too riled up about public speaking, but this seemed completely different. Here I would be speaking to potentially thousands of people at once! How could I not be nervous? When the time finally came, it was just me and Holly Alexandruk in an otherwise empty studio! We did a qui...

During the course of my training in travel health, I came to hate mosquitoes more than your average Manitoban. In Manitoba, mosquitoes are mostly just annoying (aside from spreading West Nile virus) - ruining barbecues, golf games and, well, pretty much any outdoor summer activity. When you're travelling abroad, however, mosquitoes can transmit a multitud...