Seven Oaks Seven Oaks Home for the Aged Scarborough, Toronto East Neilson & Ellesmere September 25th 2005 "Typical respiratory illness" Dr. Barbara Yaffe [Toronto Public Health's director of communicable disease control] Dr. Allison McGeer [infectious disease consultant at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital] Not influenza Not SARS Not avian influenza Sunday October 2nd: affected 68 residents, five employees Three died at the home Fourth died in hospital Dr. Yaffe also emphasized there was no threat to the greater public Monday October 3rd: 5th resident dies at retirement home Officials claim unrelated to previous deaths Tuesday October 4th: Two more residents of an east-end Toronto nursing home died yesterday after a "garden variety" outbreak of a mysterious illness that has claimed a total of six lives and whose origins and precise nature may never be known Wednesday October 5th: Death toll rises to ten Dr. David McKeown [Toronto medical officer of health] Thursday October 6th: Death toll rises to sixteen Friday October 7th: Diagnosed as legionnaires Friday October 21st: Water droplets from air conditioner blamed Death toll, 20 Monday October 24th: Death toll, 21