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    image   Noontime Constitutional: Kayaking on English Bay off Vancouver's shoreline is just one of the ways Brett Finlay channels his boundless energy.
    In May 2000, spring floods washed cattle manure into the water wells of Walkerton, Ontario, a farming community of 5,000 people about 90 miles west of Toronto, thereby contaminating the town's water supply. An epidemic of diarrhea followed, sickening half of the population and leaving seven dead. continued...

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
Spring 2004, pages 24-27.
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