May 9, 2008
Mystery Illness Plagues Quarantined Train
Maybe we've seen Outbreak too many times, but this does not sound good:
Canadian authorities have a train in northern Ontario traveling between Vancouver, B.C. and Toronto, Ontario under quarantine after one person died and several others came down with an undetermined illness.
Apparently, 10 people have come down with flu-like symptoms on the train and one woman has already succumbed to the mystery illness. We guess flu-like symptoms are better than ebola-like symptoms, but still. Canadian officials say they believe the illness is contained on two of the train cars, but no chances are being taken--all 269 passengers and 30 crew members remain quarantined and no one without protective gear has been allowed on the train.
We're telling you, next thing you know a power-crazy Donald Sutherland is going to be calling for an air-strike on that train. Hopefully, for the sake of our Canadian brothers and sisters, Dustin Hoffman is somewhere in the territories.
Outbreak poster courtesy of the Wiki Commons
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Wasn't it mean ol' Donald Sutherland who was going to drop the bomb?
Also worth noting is this update that's appeared this afternoon:
Other reports quote the police as having reached this conclusion in consultation with the medical experts on site. So, probably not super-flu burning through the confined population of a transcontinental passenger train.
Eric -- apparently I haven't watched the movie enought!! I changed my glaring mistake, Sutherland is SO much more evil than Morgan Freeman anyway.