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hiawatha65
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Posted: January 08 2014 at 1:32pm |
Ryan
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You beat me to posting by about 5 minutes! Reposting my comments here:
TL;DR: - Unknown aged victim traveled to China in December and returned on January 1st. - "Unclear" how they contracted the disease. No evidence of human-to-human transmission. - They died on January 3rd. - Close contacts receiving Tamiflu. No other symptomatic persons reported. Health officials are downplaying severity but haven't mentioned anything about what flight they were on, where it stopped over (very likely Vancouver airport), or what other steps they're taking.
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Flights were Air Canada 030, December 27th Beijing to Vancouver then Air Canada 244, Vancouver to Edmonton, same date
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hiawatha65
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If those flights are correct the first- Air canada 30 is a Boeing 767-300 holding about 300+ passangers and she was on it for 10 hours and 30 minutes. The second plane was an Embraer ERJ 190 and holds 98 passengers and she was on this for about 1 hour 15 minutes- note the planes used and flight times are from the same route that was flown today. I am assuming that they would not change up planes or have flight times much differently though.
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