THE THIN WHITE LINE: the history of a future avian influenza pandemic

Chapter 4: "The End is Near"

The Canadian epidemic ends

    As a nation, Canada had caught Avian Flu——briefly crippled as a result, but each day making a long, slow, hard recovery back towards a state of robust health. As the winter holidays approached, the virus, which had nearly brought the nation to its knees, continued to produce fewer and fewer new cases each day.
    Nearly 7.8 million had become clinically ill from the flu, nearly 100,000 had died, and the country was devastated.
    As people celebrated the holidays, for the first time they began to hope.
    By New Year’s Eve, the Canadian epidemic had virtually ended.