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Walkerton, Ont. 20 years on: A lingering tinge of grief amid community pride
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TORONTO – As the May long weekend approached 20 years ago, an invisible killer began stalking the unsuspecting town of Walkerton, Ont., preparing to unleash an epidemic that would damage or destroy many lives.
Dangerous bacteria had found their way into a vulnerable well, flowing into a municipal water system dangerously low on chlorine and on to the taps from which the community of 5,000 drank.
People began writing in agony. The town’s lone hospital was quickly overrun. Public health authorities frantically searched for a cause.
By the time e. coli O157:H7 bacteria in drinking water had been identified as the culprit, seven people had died and about 2,300 others had fallen ill.
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