CANADA: FIVE DIE AND HUNDREDS ARE INFECTED IN E.COLI EPIDEMIC

Record ID: 977199

  • Title: CANADA: FIVE DIE AND HUNDREDS ARE INFECTED IN E.COLI EPIDEMIC
  • Date: 27th May 2000
  • Summary: WALKERTON, CANADA (MAY 25, 2000) ( CTV - NO ACCESS CANADA/NBC/INTERNET) 1. SLV HOSPITAL IN WALKERTON CANADA 0.07 2. SLV HELICOPTER LANDING ON THE HOSPITAL GROUNDS/PEOPLE ALIGHT FROM HELICOPTER/ PERSON BEING PUSHED ON STRETCHER (4 SHOTS) 0.20 3. SLV WALKERTON WATER RESERVOIR, WHICH WAS THE SOURCE OF THE E-COLI OUTBREAK ZOOM INTO WATER TANK IN DISTANCE WITH THE NAME "BROCKTON" WRITTEN ON SIDE 0.25 4. SCU PEOPLE HANDING OUT BOTTLED WATER TO TOWN RESIDENTS (5 SHOTS) 0.40 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WALKERTON RESIDENT COMPLAINING, "Everybody's a little upset about it. They should have let us know before this happened." 0.44 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WALKERTON RESIDENT AT PRESS CONFERENCE ASKING THE CITY MAYOR" Why weren't we told on Thursday. Why didn't Stan pick up the phone and say Jim we have a problem." 1.00 7. (SOUNDBITE)(English) MAYOR DAVID THOMPSON SAYING "It was definately not a cover up as far as council was concerned, as far as myself." 1.05 8. SLV HEALTH COMMISSIONER DR. MURRAY MCQUIGGE WALKING INTO A BUILDING 1.18 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEALTH COMMISSIONER DR. MURRAY MCQUIGGE SAYING, "I'm saying, this would have been prevented, people are dying, people may die yet, this would have been prevented." 1.24 10. SCU FATHER CARRYING BABY INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM 1.26 11. SLV PARENTS AND CHILDREN WALKING ON THE STREETS OF WALKERTON/ SCU TODDLER; SLV FAMILY WALKING (3 SHOTS) 1.34 12. SLV FLAG AT HALF MAST 1.38 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: WALKERTON, CANADA
  • Country: Canada
  • Reuters ID: LVAED07CY3B5GW5NMLZDZ25FLCPT
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