PCS says 90% of tax is effectively voluntary, with so few staff to check suspect cases.
"That's how we ended up with 134 suspect cases," Dr. Kirkland said.
Samples taken from 45 of the suspect cases included 19 that tested positive for Ebola.
In Canada, officials reported about 440 probable or suspect cases in 2003, with more than 40 deaths in Toronto.
Then Dr. Kainer learned of three additional suspect cases of meningitis and stroke linked to the clinic.
Now, after the special counsel's new report, the department has sent those suspect cases to another panel of independent experts.
It is certainly plausible that an economic downturn could lower the rate at which suspect cases are reported.
"As long as they have some of the symptoms, they are considered suspect cases," said Lori Maldonado, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
At least 12 students at the university became ill, while another seven are still listed as suspect cases, official reports said today.
But we have a number of suspect cases that have been hospitalized and we expect that number to go up," he said.
Suspect cases are admitted to one of a line of individual rooms in the transit unit, so that they cannot infect others or become infected themselves.
