BC Election 2009 » Healthcare http://bc2009.com The race for Victoria Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:55:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Swine Flu taking the media spotlight http://bc2009.com/2009/04/26/swine-flu-taking-the-media-spotlight/ http://bc2009.com/2009/04/26/swine-flu-taking-the-media-spotlight/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:46:05 +0000 Sacha Peter http://bc2009.com/?p=2252 It is quite evident that the next media panic will be over the Mexican Swine Flu, and this is very likely to overshadow the provincial campaign.

The last major media-epidemic was SARS, which hit about 8,000 people between November 2002 to July 2003. Currently the numbers are sketchy, and reports coming out of media will be unreliable. The reliability will improve over time.

The BC Government has put out a rare election-time press release confirming that two people in the Lower Mainland have been confirmed with the swine flu.

The Swine Flu wikipedia page is a fairly good resource of information so far.

This will also be a good test to see if government protocols concerning disease management following the SARS outbreak will be working or not.

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