Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The medical professionals have identified the Northwest Territories as a very low risk. We have some flu vaccine that we have stored. We are encouraging everybody to get their flu shots this year, take all the other common precautions that you would take. If somebody is feeling unwell, they go to their nearest health centre there -- the nurses and the doctors there -- to get a service. This is not an issue where we want to have people stampeding to health centres because they think, because they have been listening to the press, that this is an imminent danger for us up here in Canada. It has been diagnosed as low risk. We know that it is moving around. We know that it hasn't mutated to be able to go from human to human yet, as far as we know, and that the Northwest Territories is considered a very low risk area. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 291-15(4): Avian Flu Pandemic
In the Legislative Assembly on October 27th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 291-15(4): Avian Flu Pandemic
Question 291-15(4): Avian Flu Pandemic
Item 7: Oral Questions
October 26th, 2005
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