Neil, you're still the strong guy. This is what got you!
Dear Neil,
I doubt that it was the cold that did you in! I think it's the samegastro-intestinal trouble that hit our ship and made the Captain impose allkinds of emergency measures.
Also it is here in Kelowna, as I found when I got home and visited astore where it was being discussed.
It's in the U.S. where my friend Gayle lives in the Maine area as she caughtit there.
You're just as strong as you were before you got it. Carry a littlebottle of hand sterilizer in your pocket and use it when you touchthings other people do. Careful about shaking hands. Wash you hands often, to
a count of 30, especially before eating, when you come home from outside somewhere, and after use of the washroom. Common things like doorknobs need to be wipedwith germ-killer. It usually lasts three days and is dreadful while you have it
. You can still pass it to others for two days after you feel well. I think that's why it is spreading so quickly and easily.
The Captain of our ship said that it was one of the things we pass aroundfrom country to country due to fast travel these days. It was amazing theamount of control that had to be imposed in the ship to overcome it, butwe did it by crew and passenger cooperation. By the time we docked there hadn'tbeen any new cases for a couple of days. Now I'm home I'm keeping up theavoidance practices.
Best wishes, Maryk
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Three passengers hospitalized for flu-like symtomsJan 08, 2008 10:46 PMTamsyn BurgmannJackson Hayesstaff reporters
More than 75 passengers returning from Tel Aviv were detained for a number of hours at Pearson airport last night after a few fell ill aboard the flight.
The plane, Air Canada flight 085 from Tel Aviv, landed just after 9 p.m. Tuesday
carrying 201 passengers.
Health officials who met the passengers on the ground determined later they were
suffering with acute gastroenteritis. Its symptoms include vomiting, nausea and
diarrhea.
“It is our standard operating procedure to have health officials meet the aircraft on arrival in cases like this,” said Air Canada representative Angela Mah.
Passengers with symptoms were sent to hospital for assessment and treatment, said Alain Desroches with the Public Health Agency of Canada. Desroches said three
people aboard the flight were sick.
However, one passenger said about eight people appeared sick and passengers weren’t met until they reached customs.
“They didn’t tell us anything,” said passenger Matt Coleman of the ordeal. “
They totally kept us in the dark.
“They did not separate the sick people from the ones who weren’t sick. We were
all just put in a room, given `bunny suits’ and told to stay put.”
Coleman, 19, said sick passengers began “getting feverish and throwing up in the lavatories.”
Some of the passengers on the plane, including those who became sick, were flying with Birthright travel groups: Tour guides that bring young Jewish Americans and Canadians on guided tours though Israel.
Coleman said the members of his party, which was organized by the travel group Oranim, were not the ones who fell ill. He said the ill travellers were with the
group with Israel Amplified.
Desroches said emergency responders released 47 passengers with no symptoms and
not part of the tour group to pass through customs, further assessing 25 from the same group and three more not part of the group before determining three had to be hospitalized.
Coleman said it was nearly two hours until he was cleared by health officials.
“They just took my temperature and it was regular so I could go.” He added that all the other passengers were allowed to leave with the exception of the original eight.
Attempts to contact the Greater Toronto Airports Authority were not successful.
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