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Fevers Future
How We Respond to Infections to Come
From: Country of Poxes
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Chapter 5 reflects on how prepared Canada is to respond to the future infectious diseases outbreaks to come. Discussing topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary medicine’s ties to patriarchy and racism, the importance of Indigenous self-government over healthcare services, the near eradication of polio, the authors experience working in the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic, Indigenous autonomy in healthcare administration and delivery, the Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation agreements to fund an Indigenous healthcare system across their territory, the return to Indigenous systems of knowledge in medicine, and the need to continually rebuild our healthcare system to fix the problems of the past and prepare for future challenges.