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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 30, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba m y k Page a9 Winnipeg repress. Com Lister Osis outbreak Winnipeg free press saturday August 30, 2008 a9 b u n d l e the More you add the More you save they re so transparent. No wonder they dont want you to see this and. Switch to its to from $ 19.99 a month bundled for the first 6 months $ 24.99 a month unbundled and youll get More for your Money. Hold this up to the Light and see Why the Cable company wants you to stay in the dark. Digital Box no Purchase of digital Box required As Box is included with its to service. Digital Box remains property of its and must be returned if service is cancelled or replacement Cost will be charged. Promotional Price of $ 19.99 is for bundled customers $ 24.99 for non bundled and is Only available to customers who have not had its to service in the last 6 months. 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Choose from up to 26 theme groups Access to 250 channels Bonus 3 months free movie Central Basic 11 theme groups up to 90 channels $ 25 installation fee Toronto expect More sandwiches and other products with meat that came from a Maple Leaf Plant at the Centre of an ongoing Lister Osis outbreak to be recalled in the coming Days As investigators use further precision to determine just where that meat ended up officials said Friday. Warnings that the very Young the elderly pregnant women and those with compromised immune systems should avoid All Deli meats not just the recalled product were to begin running saturday in newspapers across the country some 10 Days after the first death was reported. The Canadian food inspection Agency added a variety of ready to eat products to the recall Early Friday including products sold at obeys and Iga outlets in b. C., Alberta Manitoba and Saskatchewan. They include Turkey and Bacon wrap 3 pack subs Quarter loaf Dagwood half loaf Dagwood and Dagwood Sandwich loaf whole with Best before dates up to and including August 27, and meat ends cry vac with Best before dates up to and including sept. 7. On Friday the number of deaths conclusively blamed on the outbreak grew by one to nine As officials confirmed a death in British Columbia the first death to be reported outside Ontario. Six other deaths four in Ontario and one each in Saskatchewan and Quebec remain under investigation for possible links to the outbreak. Its been nearly two weeks since the original recall was announced and yet an additional 50 products were added Friday to an expanding list of recalled items because they May contain contaminated product. It May not be Over yet agriculture minister Gerry Ritz told a news conference. Well the recalls therell be a few More As we get out into the secondary processors and some of the third line Ritz said. Some of this product went out somewhere and other sandwiches were made out of it thatus the nature of the recalls As they grow. Officials stressed the continued recalls were a sign of Maple Leaf voluntarily removing hundreds of products from the marketplace that although they a vent tested positive for listeria were made at the same Plant where the tainted meat was discovered. Meanwhile the mayor of Walkerton ont. The scene of a deadly e. Coli disaster eight years ago called for a Public inquiry. Charlie Bagnato said hers shocked the Federal government a snot Learned the lessons of his towns tainted water tragedy which killed seven people and made thousands More ill. He noted three Federal ministers Tony Clement John Baird and Jim Flaherty were All members of the Ontario Cabinet at the time of the Walkerton outbreak. The Canadian press with file from can West news service r relatives of a 67 year old Manitoba Man battling a potentially deadly form of Lister Osis Are terrified he could be infected with the same Strain that has killed at least nine canadians. The Man is the provinces first victim of Lister Osis suspected to be connected with the massive tainted meat recall from Toronto is Maple Leaf foods Plant. He is a longtime resident of Dakota Ovate Lodge a Persona care Home run by Indian and Northern affairs Canada on Sioux Valley Dakota nation. He suffers from diabetes and has been on kidney dialysis for the last 13 years. According to the mans son his health began to deteriorate two weeks ago when he developed a terrible headache and constant sweats. His wife spent every night at the nursing Home and the illness baffled staff. The Man was admitted to Brandon regional health Centre last week when his condition worsened. The mans family asked he not be named partly because they a vent told him he has Lister Osis a serious illness that left him with blood poisoning and can be fatal in about 30 per cent of cases. Winnipeg Gas National the mans if he was infected from ingesting meat involved in the recall. Results should be available next week. Its pretty scary especially when you hear about people dying from it and you dont know if its going to be him or not the mans son said. Doctors have said Little to the mans family about listeria or the mans prognosis. Relatives told the free press his condition has improved since last week and they Are hopeful hell recover. On Friday he was recovering with his wife of 40 years his three sons and four daughters at his bedside. He was laughing and talking while receiving intravenous antibiotics. The Man grew up in Sioux Valley Hay. He is a respected member of the Community who spent his younger years travelling across Manitoba Canada and parts of the u. S. As a song Leader with a ministry group. The recall of More than 200 read to eat meat products has raised the question of whether cold cuts should be served to patients in hospitals and personal care Homes. A nurse who works at Dakota Ovate Lodge confirmed Deli meats Are served to residents despite the fact that the elderly and people with chronic medical conditions Are More susceptible to contracting Lister Osis from contaminated foods. Some food safety experts say people who Are High risk should avoid Manitoba ass chief medical officer or. Joel Kettner told the free press earlier this week that the policy should be reviewed once the extent of the Lister Osis outbreak is known. However he said Banning certain foods in hospitals and care Homes might be going overboard since All foods carry a certain risk. Manitoba records about four cases of Lister Osis a year and the bacteria can incubate in a persons body for up to 70 Days. Health officials Are bracing for More cases of the potentially deadly bacteria in Manitoba since people could have been exposed As Early As june. Jen. Skerritt free press. My. a Winnipeg Man who nearly died from Lister Osis six years ago is shocked to hear the rare bacteria Are behind a major outbreak. Director Robb Paterson 52, landed in a coma after contracting Lister Osis from eating unpasteurized Goat cheese in Early 2002. He spent a month recovering in a Toronto Hospital and said he now suffers from Short term memory problems and Tourette syndrome which occasionally causes him to bark. Paterson said doctors initially told him Lister Osis is very rare and Only about 12 canadians fall ill each year. Its surreal to me he said. I just assumed it was this very rare Freaky unlucky thing that happened to me. Paterson ate the Goat cheese in Winnipeg two Days before flying to Toronto where he began experiencing intense headaches and neck pain. He was admitted to Hospital when his symptoms worsened and said he has Little memory of the ordeal except for crying out in agony for morphine. Doctors diagnosed him with bacterial meningitis which lab tests later confirmed was caused by listeria bacteria from the Goat cheese. Paterson is Case was so severe that doctors told his wife daughter and parents to prepare for the worst and his family kept a bedside Vigil. Although he recovered it took months before he could walk by himself and his blurred vision subsided. He said hearing about the outbreak brought up memories of something he thought head never hear about again. Its an Odd feeling because i thought it was a chapter i had closed in my life. Al microbiology Laboratory is testing themans blood samples to determine Dakota nation and worked on area farms driving tractors and hauling soft cheeses and processed cold cuts altogether. Check that fridge Manitoba kids Are Back to school next week and parents should double Check the refrigerator before packing any potentially risky lunches. All recalled. Products show 97b in a Crown Seal or near the Best before Date. Dont eat ready to eat meat products unless you know they Are not on the recall list. If you find meat at Home thatus not. I n its original packaging Contact the grocery store and find out if its on the recall list. If you re unsure throw it out. Disease strikes Manitoba Man 67 not yet known if Case linked to huge recall by Jen Skerritt City survivor still suffering memory loss brands pulled Here More recalls expected by Gregory Bonnell a _ 09_ aug 30 08. Ind a9 8 / 29/ 08 8 06 47 pm ;