eeek!

A Via train has been quarantined in what looks on the Google map to be the Middle of Absolutely Nowhere, Northern Ontario, but is in fact the small town of Foleyet. 1 passenger dead, 10 taken to hospital, paramedics in full protection gear...

Does it make me a bad person that I am kind of riveted?

(Other stories: City, taking the high road*; Globe; CBC.)

*When I wrote that, the banner on their video clip was DEATH TRAIN QUARANTINED. Srsly.

hee!

No, I haven't let this story go yet. More news on the train quarantine and I am chuckling over this:

The elderly female who was transferred to a Timmins hospital is doing much better, [Dr. Donald] Low [microbiologist-in-chief at Mt. Sinai and one of the go-to guys for infectious disease outbreaks] added.

"She's fine," he said. "She's a febrile." Everything worked as it should in the time of a potential health disaster, said Low.

I am chuckling because:

a) I do not think he said what you thought he said.
b) He probably said "afebrile", which (knowing doctors as I do) is exactly what I would expect a doctor to say to a reporter without much health background instead of, oh, "she doesn't have a fever."
c) Yeah, that could be Word's fault or a copy editor's fault. I don't care. It's still funny.