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Source: http://www.citynews.ca/2014/01/09/bugs-will-travel-public-health-closely-tracking-foreign-outbreaks/
Bugs will travel: Public health closely tracking foreign outbreaks
01/09/2014 10:05 PM Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
A Toronto grandmother came home from Hong Kong with SARS. A Colorado woman visited a Ugandan cave and brought back to the United States an alarming souvenir ? Marburg fever, a cousin of Ebola. And now H5N1 bird flu has jumped the Pacific in the body of an Alberta woman.
If you ever wonder why public health officials worry about far-flung diseases ? the latest bird flu, the new MERS coronavirus ? the incidents above pretty much explain it.
Bugs travel. Or as public health folks like to put it, infectious diseases know no borders...
Bugs will travel: Public health closely tracking foreign outbreaks
01/09/2014 10:05 PM Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
A Toronto grandmother came home from Hong Kong with SARS. A Colorado woman visited a Ugandan cave and brought back to the United States an alarming souvenir ? Marburg fever, a cousin of Ebola. And now H5N1 bird flu has jumped the Pacific in the body of an Alberta woman.
If you ever wonder why public health officials worry about far-flung diseases ? the latest bird flu, the new MERS coronavirus ? the incidents above pretty much explain it.
Bugs travel. Or as public health folks like to put it, infectious diseases know no borders...