Just Heard this on CBC Radio 2

[mbarrick]

Apparently the federal government has preemptively sent extra body-bags out to remote native communities in anticipation of swine flu making the rounds this winter.

Somewhere in Ottawa, someone thought this was a good idea and the best course of action.

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[volksjager.livejournal.com]

Back in the 1917 "spanish flu" outbreak Native populations were the hardest hit. Whole reservation in Alaska were wiped out.