Fred Derf Veteran Posted October 6, 2005 Veteran Share Posted October 6, 2005 Paula Zaun referred, on air, to Toronto as ground-zero for a mystery illness. :rolleyes: Death toll at 16 from nursing home mystery illness TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A deadly outbreak of a respiratory illness at a Toronto nursing home has claimed six more lives, raising the death toll to 16, health officials said Wednesday. The cause of the outbreak at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged remains unknown, although officials insisted the situation was under control. Thirty-eight people remained hospitalized with the illness, and officials fear many of them are too frail to fully recover. Another 88 residents, employees and visitors have been affected. Public health officials have said it may never be possible to determine the exact type of bug responsible for the rash of illnesses, but they have ruled out influenza, avian flu, SARS and Legionnaire's disease. Anxiety over the outbreak has been exacerbated by fears of SARS -- severe acute respiratory syndrome -- which claimed 44 lives in Toronto from two outbreaks in the spring of 2003. More than 8,000 people worldwide contracted the illness and 774 people died. Authorities have said the outbreak, while more serious than average, was not particularly unusual, especially as the flu season approaches. http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/05/toron...s.ap/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted October 6, 2005 Veteran Share Posted October 6, 2005 Paula Zaun referred, on air, to Toronto as ground-zero for a mystery illness. well, shock value gets big bucks. but i hope they can figure it out and save those people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vykranth Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 It's Legionnaire's disease. http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/06/myste...a.ap/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R-Flex Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 It's Legionnaire's disease. http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/06/myste...a.ap/index.html 586635924[/snapback] But the media will hype it up, inevitably making everyone fear some sort of outbreak of this disease. (From what I understand, easy to contain, not a risk at all, most are immune to it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted October 8, 2005 Veteran Share Posted October 8, 2005 But the media will hype it up, inevitably making everyone fear some sort of outbreak of this disease. (From what I understand, easy to contain, not a risk at all, most are immune to it) 586636169[/snapback] Yeah, I definetly havn't seen a huge headline about it being legionares disease. Apparantly it wasn't as important as when it was "AN UNKNOWN DISEASE LORD HELP US" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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