Ground zero of Canada's flu crisis



Patrick White
Wasagamack, Man. — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2009 03:00AM EDT
When Yvonne MacDougall learned about the body bags, she sat down and wept.

She wept for her chief, father to his people, who channelled their collective rage by returning the body bags to Winnipeg. And she wept because she can do so little to protect the 14 members of her home from a virus that stalks people like them.

With no running water, no sewer and no money to buy supplies such as hand sanitizer, she's had but one precaution at her disposal.

“We stopped keeping a slop pail inside,â€