Ray said it is unfortunate the city will be forever linked to the outbreak.
It's one cloud that was over our head that is gone," Mayor Wayne Ray said. "It certainly assists us in trying to move forward. Butler-Jones said the attending physician did not feel it was the primary cause of death. The microscopic parasite was found in the third individual's stool, but Dr. It obviously doesn't make it any easier for those families," said David Butler-Jones, the province's chief medical health officer.īy examining hospital records and interviewing doctors, public-health investigators concluded that two of the three people did not contract cryptosporidium. "It confirms what we know about cryptosporidium outbreaks - that the chance of dying from this is very, very rare. Medical officials said the deaths of three people, which were originally linked to a parasite that invaded the drinking water supply in the west-central Saskatchewan town, were not caused by the bug. Just as anxiety over contaminated water was becoming routine in North Battleford, a bit of rare good news lifted residents' spirits yesterday.