Seven Oaks

Seven Oaks

Seven Oaks Home for the Aged
Scarborough, Toronto East
Neilson & Ellesmere

September 25th 2005

"Typical respiratory illness"

Dr. Barbara Yaffe [Toronto Public Health's director of communicable disease control]

Dr. Allison McGeer [infectious disease consultant at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital]
Not influenza
Not SARS
Not avian influenza

Sunday October 2nd: affected 68 residents, five employees
Three died at the home
Fourth died in hospital

Dr. Yaffe also emphasized there was no threat to the greater public

Monday October 3rd: 5th resident dies at retirement home
Officials claim unrelated to previous deaths

Tuesday October 4th: Two more residents of an east-end Toronto nursing home died yesterday after a "garden variety" outbreak of a mysterious illness that has claimed a total of six lives and whose origins and precise nature may never be known

Wednesday October 5th: Death toll rises to ten

Dr. David McKeown [Toronto medical officer of health]

Thursday October 6th: Death toll rises to sixteen

Friday October 7th: Diagnosed as legionnaires

Friday October 21st: Water droplets from air conditioner blamed
Death toll, 20

Monday October 24th: Death toll, 21