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An elderly woman is dead and three other passengers were taken to hospital Saturday after developing flu-like symptoms on an eastbound VIA Rail train.
The train, headed to Toronto from Vancouver, was stopped in Parry Sound, Ont., for six hours starting at 5 a.m. after an 86-year-old woman was reported to be unconscious and unresponsive. Emergency crews boarded the train and confirmed the woman had died.
The two compartments occupied by the passengers were quarantined, and the train arrived in Toronto just before 4 p.m.
Before anyone gets their hazmat suits on - what's weird is I did a search for this before posting and thought it actually already had been:
Via Rail train quarantined in Northern Ontario after mystery illness hits passengers and one woman dies
...until I realized that ATS thread is over 4 years old. Eerily similar though.
Originally posted by TheLieWeLive
reply to post by Carreau
I can't even imagine how tragic it would be at our population levels.
Originally posted by Starwise
Originally posted by TheLieWeLive
reply to post by Carreau
I can't even imagine how tragic it would be at our population levels.
Tragic isn't even the word to use to describe it! I think it would be worse
And Hopefully its after I pass and my great grandchildren pass too....
Originally posted by TheLieWeLive
Originally posted by Starwise
Originally posted by TheLieWeLive
reply to post by Carreau
I can't even imagine how tragic it would be at our population levels.
Tragic isn't even the word to use to describe it! I think it would be worse
And Hopefully its after I pass and my great grandchildren pass too....
Yea tragic may not be enough of a describer. I look at my children and know the inevitability of an outbreak and it saddens me to the core. I see how quickly they bring illnesses home from school and then spread it to my wife and I. Then in return we spread it on to our co-workers or vice verse.
If any pandemic comes it will be so rapid and devastating that many will be infected before they even know how deadly it is and this scares the bejeezus out of me. Many can prepare with Hazmat suits and masks but in reality we may contract this virus before we even know to prepare for it.
Originally posted by mc_squared
Is this the beginning of an outbreak? Time to panic??!
Originally posted by Starwise
Originally posted by TheLieWeLive
reply to post by Carreau
I can't even imagine how tragic it would be at our population levels.
Tragic isn't even the word to use to describe it! I think it would be worse
And Hopefully its after I pass and my great grandchildren pass too....
WHAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION
> It is not known who is in possession of biological Weapons
of Mass Destruction.
> Medical experts do not know if bacteria have been
engineered to be resistant to antibiotics.
> Experts do not know how potent the strains will be in a
biological attack.
> Experts do not know if the illnesses caused by some of these
agents will be immediately recognizable.
> There is disagreement on how long some of these agents can
survive in the environment.
> Experts do not know if the diseases these agents cause will
be the same as past epidemics (e.g., is today’s smallpox the
same as the disease that was eradicated?).
Originally posted by TheLieWeLive
Yea tragic may not be enough of a describer. I look at my children and know the inevitability of an outbreak and it saddens me to the core. I see how quickly they bring illnesses home from school and then spread it to my wife and I. Then in return we spread it on to our co-workers or vice verse.
If any pandemic comes it will be so rapid and devastating that many will be infected before they even know how deadly it is and this scares the bejeezus out of me. Many can prepare with Hazmat suits and masks but in reality we may contract this virus before we even know to prepare for it.