Tag: cases
Can London officials pinpoint source of deadly legionnaires’ disease outbreak?
Public health officials are promising an update Wednesday afternoon, two weeks after the first reported cases, about an outbreak of a rare disease that has hospitalized nearly two dozen people and killed one. The Middlesex-London Health Unit, with help from Public Health Ontario, is in the midst of investigating an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease â […]
Police identify third suspect in downtown London shooting
London police have identified a third suspect in a downtown shooting and laid additional charges against one suspect
Man wanted in north London shooting arrested
A wanted Toronto man has been found and arrested in connection with a shooting last year near University Hospital, police said Friday
Legionnaires’ disease: One dead, infections rise in London outbreak
One person has died and the infection toll has risen from a rare outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in London
Police searching for Lake Erie jet ski operator missing near Erieau
Authorities are searching for a man who went missing on a personal watercraft in Lake Erie near Erieau
Suspect sought in St. Thomas homicide arrested in London: Police
A man accused of gunning down a woman and setting her home ablaze in St. Thomas last month faces unrelated charges for fentanyl possession and breaking his parole conditions multiple times, according to court records
Legionnaire’s disease: Cases in London outbreak rise to 20, 10 in hospital
An outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in London has put 10 people, among 20 confirmed cases, in hospital as public health officials continue to track its source. Patients in hospital are receiving varying degrees of treatment from intravenous antibiotics to being intubated, Joanne Kearon, associate medical officer of health for the Middlesex-London health unit, said Thursday. […]
Suspected drug poisonings lead to opioid alert in Grey-Bruce
Another opioid alert has been issued in Grey-Bruce after the local health unit was notified of two fatal and two-non-fatal suspected drug poisonings. The suspected drug poisonings occurred in Owen Sound and Meaford over the past seven days, with fentanyl suspected in three of the cases, including one fatality, Grey Bruce Public Health said in […]
Woman dies after being pulled from Goderich harbour: OPP
A woman from Huron County has died after she was pulled from the water near the Goderich pier on Wednesday. Emergency crews and the Canadian Coast Guard responded shortly before noon to a report of an unconscious person in the water in Goderich, along Lake Huron. The woman was found by the Coast Guard and […]