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To: BurbankKarl
I just watched a Discovery Health Channel special the other day. It dealt with the outbreak of illness in Walkerton Ontario in 2000. It was the dreaded E. coli 0157:H7 bacterium, for which there is no cure, only palliative treatment.

The water supply was the source of the contamination. The testing authorities had not been properly testing the water. It ended up being a well that was contaminated by pasture runoff during a storm.

7 people died because someone took a paperwork shortcut.

Hopefully this is not the same illness.
6 posted on 04/20/2003 7:51:20 PM PDT by petuniasevan (I'm a lefty. Left-handed. The only kind of lefty I've ever been.)
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To: petuniasevan
Actually, I think in the Walkerton case the bacteriological testing was done properly by a private company, but the water operator did nothing about (i.e., didn't report) the positive results they gave him... he should have issued an emergency boil order, at minimum. Anyway, he went to jail as I recall.
11 posted on 04/20/2003 7:56:48 PM PDT by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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To: petuniasevan
Eighty tournament participants staying at the Reno Hilton reported flu-like symptoms Sunday, said Bob Sack, director of environmental health at the Washoe County District Health Department......Sack said the girls and others began experiencing nausea, diarrhea and other symptoms early Sunday morning.......Tom Arnott, 52, of Honolulu, said he, his daughter and three of her teammates became ill Sunday. He spent most of the day at the hospital with a 103-degree fever.

According to the CDCs website, E-Coli patients usually do not have a fever.

Flu-like symptoms include: Fever, headache tiredness, dry cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, and body aches. The list doesn't include nausea and diarrhea (what the article sites as the symptoms of those affected).

This might be salmonella.

41 posted on 04/20/2003 9:12:28 PM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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