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Title: Kashechewan children suffering from rashes, open sores | CTV News
Category: Health
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2016-03-21 14:57:55
Canadian

[Robair]

[OnTheIce]

How is it the rest of Canada's fault this time?

[BartSimpson]

Shit, that looks like some form of variola.

It isn't (knock on wood) but damn if that isn't scary to see something like that again.

[Public_Domain]

[Thanos]

I want full information on this one before I flip out because this is a complete disgrace.

[BeaverFever]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

I wonder how many communities in Canada face problems like Flint's.

Just the First Nations ones. Kashechewan has been evacuated due to disease before and has historically been plagued by E.coli, impetigo and scabies. It's also built on a floodplain and has been evacuated due to flood in each of the last four consecutive years.

But its all this kid's fault:

[ShepherdsDog]

It looks a lot like impetigo.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

I wonder how many communities in Canada face problems like Flint's.

Just the First Nations ones. Kashechewan has been evacuated due to disease before and has historically been plagued by E.coli, impetigo and scabies. It's also built on a flood plane and has been evacuated due to flood in each of the last four consecutive years.

But its all this kid's fault

Oh fer sure dude. That sure seems to be the general sentiment on this forum.

[DrCaleb]

$1:

After visits to 18 homes in Kashechewan First Nation, doctors in Kashechewan say they have identified 19 children with skin conditions, but no medical emergencies.

The diagnoses so far in the children aged one to mid-teens is scabies, mild impetigo and eczema, said Keith Conn, associate deputy minister of First Nations and Inuit Health. It's unclear if the kids have a combination of these or one or the other.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/s ... -1.3504322