[LINK] "Toronto 'prepared' for flu"
Apr. 27th, 2009 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWhile international attention is focused on Pakistan and neighbouring areas, here in Toronto the potential for a swine flu is prominent in the popular consciousness, not least because of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Ian Robertson in The Toronto Sun reports that it's because of that epidemic that Toronto is reasonably prepared. We think.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/04/27/9256906-sun.html
As fears of a swine flu pandemic grow, a public health spokesman urged Torontonians to take precautions and remain calm as officials monitor progress of the virus.
"We still don't have any cases in Toronto or the rest of the province of Ontario," Toronto Public Health's Rishma Govani said yesterday.
She said officials are re-working their 2007 pandemic plan, which should soon be posted on the health department's website. Toronto's last big public health threat came six years ago when the city fell prey to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
With 103 people believed dead in Mexico from a swine influenza, six people were reported in B.C. and Nova Scotia with mild symptoms, plus others ill in the U.S. and overseas, "we're obviously monitoring the situation," along with federal and provincial agencies, Govani said.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/04/27/9256906-sun.html
As fears of a swine flu pandemic grow, a public health spokesman urged Torontonians to take precautions and remain calm as officials monitor progress of the virus.
"We still don't have any cases in Toronto or the rest of the province of Ontario," Toronto Public Health's Rishma Govani said yesterday.
She said officials are re-working their 2007 pandemic plan, which should soon be posted on the health department's website. Toronto's last big public health threat came six years ago when the city fell prey to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
With 103 people believed dead in Mexico from a swine influenza, six people were reported in B.C. and Nova Scotia with mild symptoms, plus others ill in the U.S. and overseas, "we're obviously monitoring the situation," along with federal and provincial agencies, Govani said.
