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Nine dead after norovirus outbreak at B.C. care home: chief medical officer
By: The Canadian Press
Tuesday, Jul. 30, 2013 at 11:24 PM
VICTORIA - The Vancouver Island Health Authority says nine people are dead and 100 patients and 50 staff members have become sick this month after a norvirus outbreak at a seniors' home in Victoria, B.C...
Dozens fall ill during norovirus outbreak at care home
By Lindsey Kines, Victoria Times Colonist July 31, 2013 1:18 AM
The norovirus has swept through the Selkirk Place residential care facility in Victoria over the past three weeks, infecting more than 100 residents and 50 staff with gastrointestinal illness.
Outbreaks of the virus have also closed two summer camps for children on Vancouver Island and one in Washington state, said Dr. Richard Stanwick, chief medical health officer with the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
"This is a virus that's always in the community," he said...
Deaths triple the norm during norovirus outbreak at Victoria care home
Lindsay Kines / Times Colonist
August 7, 2013
The number of people who died during a norovirus outbreak at Selkirk Place last month was three times higher than usual for that time of year, the Vancouver Island Health Authority confirmed late Wednesday.
Medical health officer Dr. Dee Hoyano also said a food handler may have been responsible for the rapid spread of illness, which causes vomiting and diarrhea.
Hoyano made the comments in a statement posted on the authority?s website declaring the outbreak over at the residential care facility for seniors...
