Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, January 13, 1995

Issue date: Friday, January 13, 1995
Pages available: 60
Previous edition: Thursday, January 12, 1995

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free january 1995 ads worry As flesh eating cases mount by Heather Scoffield Canadian press reports of flesh eating disease Are not just because bloc quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard has Given the deadly infection a High health officials said it could Well be that a new Strain of the disease has come into the Community which people Arent immune said Don head of microbiology at Toronto mount Sinai you dont want to but on the other you dont want to make a severe forms of the illness Are rare and a skin puncture is necessary to allow deadly bacteria into the most specialists although Bouchard infection and leg amputation last month sparked increased awareness of the disease and numbers generally Rise in this season is unprecedented for reported said in the last four the number of cases reported in Only province which keeps been about 20 a said John epidemiologist at Ottawa Laboratory Centre for disease but at least 21 cases have been spotted in the last 10 said during the same period last year and the year there was half of he this is something that occurring across the people in Belleville and Mississauga have been attacked by the disease since cases have also appeared recently in Moose and three people in the area near have contracted the disease in the last group a streptococcus bacterium which causes Necro timing Necro timing my otitis and streptococcal toxic Shock been around since at least the 18th said Necro timing disease that afflicted 75 per cent of its while other forms of the disease Are fatal Only is per cent of the he the disease dropped out of sight in the 1940s and didst appear again in significant numbers until said its been on the Rise in the United states for the last four years As data from a National Laboratory a Milder form of the disease leads Only to sore throats or minor skin severe forms can grow rapidly and kill within Days if left world famous sons since 1909 on now dont miss it no Money no interest no monthly payments sensational Power buys Only 749 b29 Only 699 dont buy of peace of this comfy suite in Hunter Green is just Many Beautiful suites in our huge you dont pay agent until on everything in the showroom Complete your dream room today appliances incl Ubu in Wihib of t k open daily 10 a m ii pm Saiu Ruay Iii l b pm Oll is 12 s phone 7830533 ;