Tag: Treatment
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
A Decade After Crisis, Algal Blooms Persist | Great Lakes Now
On August 2, it will be 10 years since officials in Toledo alerted residents in the early morning hours not to drink, bathe in or otherwise come into contact with tap water from the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant. For nearly three days chaos reigned, as bottled water sold out that first day before dawn and disappeared from shelves in the region the next day.
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 […]
Huron County hospitals receive $3.8M from province
The Ontario government is investing $3,822,936 into local hospitals in Huron County to deliver faster and more connected care. This funding is part of the province’s investment of an additional $965 million through the 2024 Ontario Budget to help Ontario’s publicly funded hospitals meet the needs of the communities they serve, a press release from […]
London researchers score two breakthroughs in prenatal health care
Two breakthrough discoveries by London researchers in prenatal care use AI-led technology to allow early diagnosis of rare diseases and identify birth disorders
$1.5 million from state to support monitoring at 7 St. Clair County water intake sites – Great Lakes Commission
Governor Whitmer of Michigan signed off on state funding to support an early warning system along the 80-mile Lake Huron-to-Lake Erie corridor. The program involves physical monitors at treatment plants […]
Alice Munro’s husband declined to address court after plea: Transcript
Alice Munro’s husband didn’t address the courtroom after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting the author’s daughter, a transcript shows
Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax | Great Lakes Now
By Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner
A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is deeply flawed and the standards should be stricter.
Dave Belluck, who worked as a toxicologist for multiple states and the federal government, says that “the science is the science” and regulating agencies, including the U.S.
Homicide probe launched as London man injured in assault dies
London police have launched a homicide investigation after a man found critically injured outside an apartment building last week died.