Corrections: Old news sparks new views
October 14, 2009 by Kyle Vinoly
In a recent Kwantlen Chronicle article the numbers quoted regarding H5N1, avain flu, and WN02, West Nile, were not the most recent.
According to the most recent summary released by the World Health Organization the number of people infected with H5N1, avain flu, is actually 442 confirmed cases as of late September with 262 deaths.
The West Nile Virus has seven confirmed cases in Canada, two in B.C and Alberta and one each for Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. None of those cases proved fatal and only 20 per cent of people infected will show a mild form of the illness at all.
The Canadian Centre for Disease Control does not exist, the proper source is the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. Hong-Kong, not China, slaughtered the 1 million birds. Roy Wadia, director of communications for the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, said that China didn’t acknowledge the outbreak of H5N1 until much later.
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