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| Soon after ], many of the residents of the town of about 5,000 began to experience bloody diarrhea and other symptoms of E. coli infection. For days the Walkerton Public Utilities Commission insisted that the water supply was safe. On May 21, an extreme escalation of patients with similar symptoms finally spurned the region's Medical Health Office to warn residents not to drink the water. Altogether, seven locals died and at least 2,300 fell ill. | Soon after ], many of the residents of the town of about 5,000 began to experience bloody diarrhea and other symptoms of E. coli infection. For days the Walkerton Public Utilities Commission insisted that the water supply was safe. On May 21, an extreme escalation of patients with similar symptoms finally spurned the region's Medical Health Office to warn residents not to drink the water. Altogether, seven locals died and at least 2,300 fell ill. | ||
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The Walkerton Tragedy is a series of tragic events that accompanied the contamination of the water supply of Walkerton, Ontario by E. coli bacteria in May 2000.
May 2000
Soon after May 15, 2000, many of the residents of the town of about 5,000 began to experience bloody diarrhea and other symptoms of E. coli infection. For days the Walkerton Public Utilities Commission insisted that the water supply was safe. On May 21, an extreme escalation of patients with similar symptoms finally spurned the region's Medical Health Office to warn residents not to drink the water. Altogether, seven locals died and at least 2,300 fell ill.
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