More than 200 people sick as officials lock down Calgary homeless shelter
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CALGARY (CP) - Police and firefighters were searching floor-to-floor in a  homeless shelter Sunday after more than 200 people developed a mysterious illness during the night.
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The number of families who stay in homeless shelters because they do not qualify for city housing subsidies has erupted over the summer.
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Health officials blamed a highly contagious, hard-to-get-rid-of virus for an outbreak of illness among nearly 400 patrons of an Olive Garden restaurant outside Indianapolis.
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Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years
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Thousands of tenants put up with poor housing because they fear eviction if they complain, a charity says.
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In the first six months of 2004, a bacterial strain has killed 109 patients in 10 hospitals in Quebec and contributed to 108 other deaths there, according to health experts in Montreal.
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TROY, Mich. Health officials are investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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Some 200 people were trapped Saturday night inside the Gateway Arch for about two hours after an apparent power outage, authorities said.
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DALHOUSIE - Residents of Dalhousie are blocking the three main roads into their town to protest the Lord government&#39;s plan to downgrade the town&#39;s only hospital.
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CALGARY -- Hundreds of people were under quarantine last night as fire, police and medical crews investigated a potential viral outbreak at a Calgary homeless shelter.
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Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans.
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At least 600 people came down with a gastrointestinal illness after eating at a popular biker bar and restaurant, health officials said Friday.
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Dozens of people are trapped in a building in south-western China after it collapsed, officials say.
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KELOWNA - As many as 2,400 people from around the world might have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus through an infected worker at a popular Kelowna restaurant, health officials said Wednesday.
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More than 120 people who ate from the same booth at the Taste of Chicago food festival last week became ill, at least nine of them with salmonella poisoning and 10 who were hospitalized, the health department said Thursday.
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Peruvian officials have closed the country's 240 blood banks after at least four people were infected with HIV from blood transfusions in a public hospital.
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More than 200 children and adults have fallen ill with a mystery virus in central Puerto Rico, forcing officials to close down a local school, officials said Friday.