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Scientists Looking At Various Possible Causes

Vancouver, B.C.- A combined team of scientists and health investigators are gathered in Vancouver working round the clock trying to find the source of the current Salmonella outbreak.

There have been reports of as many as several thousand that have suddenly fallen sick with mild to severe fever, diarrhea and vomiting.

So far there have been 64 people that have tested positive for the disease, and no one has died so far, but there have been a number of the 64 that have been admitted to the hospital with severe cramps, vomiting and extreme nausea.

The lower mainland was suspected at first, a food item distributed widely suspected to be the cause, but so far the investigators have not been able to track or locate the source of the outbreak.

“We are only seeing the very tip of a very large iceberg,” said Dr Galanis.

Dr. Eleni Galanis is an epidemiologist with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

“We believe for every case that we see and who is tested, that there are somewhere from 50 to nearly 300 cases infected we don’t see or hear about.” Said Dr. Galanis.

This would mean that an amazing number of between 3,000 and 19,000 people in the greater Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver Area that may be stricken with Salmonella.