Death On Toronto-Bound Via Rail Train
CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Vancouver to Toronto train is under quarantine near Timmins after a flu-like outbreak.
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260 Passengers and 30 Crew Quarantined On “Death Train”
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Alfed Hitchcock, H.P. lovecraft, or Edgar Allen Poe couldn't have come up with a more nightmarish scenario for the people involved, but this is not horror fiction. It's all too real: A woman has died and 10 other passengers are in hospital after a flu-like outbreak on board a Via Rail train. The train, travelling from Vancouver to Toronto, is now under quarantine near Timmins. Marc Depatie of the Foleyet...
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Transparency Is Our Middle Name
Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
CityNews: Train Death And Series Of Illnesses Unrelated Says Chief Medical Officer Of Health Train Death And Series Of Illnesses Unrelated Says Chief Medical Officer Of Health Friday May 9, 2008 CityNews.ca Staff What initially looked to be a frightening infectious disease outbreak that led to the death of one woman aboard a Via Rail train turned out [...]
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Canadian Train Quarantined: 1 Death, 10 Hospitalized With Unknown Ailment
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
# 1966 Roughly 3 and 1/2 hours ago a train, traveling from Vancouver to Toronto, stopped in the town of Foleyet, about 350 kilometres north of Sudbury, when a passenger died. Ten others aboard the train, complaining of `flu-like' symptoms have been transported to the hospital. The remaining (roughly 240) passengers are temporarily quarantined aboard the train until the cause can be identified. At this...
