Want to see how Western students started an outbreak? Look at this

A visual contact tracing map produced by London's health unit is highlighting how an outbreak started among Western University students and spread to others in the community. 

The graphic, embedded at the bottom of this story, is a real-life look at 15 people, the majority living in three student houses, and one who worked at the downtown bar Lost Love, where the health unit believes the virus really took off. 

Contact tracing shows the daily activities over the course of six days, starting the Tuesday after Labour Day when students returned to London.

Since then, the city went from less than 10 active cases to almost 30, the majority are students linked to this outbreak. 

That first day, on Sept. 9, activities included visiting campus, going to the gym and visiting several downtown restaurants and bars.

By evening's end, 11 of the people who would test positive were sitting in the same section at Lost Love, two shared a drink and two others shared an e-cigarette. 

Two individuals who worked at Lost Love for several evenings before the bar closed for deep cleaning on Sept. 12 shared rides home. One also went shopping at multiple unnamed locations.

Western University said one student who tested positive is living in residence but is in isolation. President Alan Shepard said Thursday the school now plans to use the "full force of the code of student conduct" if students continue to put the community at risk. 

Repercussions could include a warning, suspension or expulsion.