Doctors detail 2024 Ontario child rabies death in effort to warn about contact with bats

As Canadians come to grips with a series of infectious disease threats, two of the country’s highest profile experts in the field are squaring off in a multimillion-dollar court battle. In a claim filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in late 2024, Andrea Boggild, medical director of the University Health Network’s Tropical Disease Unit, seeks more than $4 million from her employers, alleging that the hospital system broke a promise to make her the new “clinical face” of the TDU, following the retirement of its legendary founder Jay Keystone. “In trying to secure the...