2009-04-28
07:22:27
Premier Dalton McGuinty is urging people to remain calm in the face of swine flu, and says Ontario is acting on lessons it learned during the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003.
There are still no confirmed cases of swine flu in Ontario and only six in all of Canada - four in Nova Scotia and two in British Columbia.
McGuinty says Ontario has more personnel, more technology, more know-how and a better understanding of how to deal with health emergencies because of its experience with SARS. He says there is a real concern with swine flu, but adds it's not a cause for undue alarm.
McGuinty says he wants to reassure families that public health officials are executing a plan that is based on the `painful lessons that we learned six years ago.'
The SARS outbreak in the spring of 2003 claimed 44 lives and made hundreds more sick.
