HHS: "West Nile virus, hepatitis A, salmonella and E. coli"

[rainbow4321]

http://www.komotv.com/news/printstory.asp?id=38969


There were also warnings of new dangers. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said he had received a report from Biloxi, Miss., of dysentery - a painful, sometimes-fatal intestinal disease that causes dehydration. With hot weather, mosquitos and standing water holding human waste, corpses and other contaminants, diseases such as West Nile virus, hepatitis A, salmonella and E. coli bacteria infections also are a concern, he said on CNN.

"We have the ingredients for a bad situation there," Leavitt said.

Hundreds of federal health officers and nearly 100 tons of medical supplies and antibiotics were being delivered to the Gulf Coast to try to head off the problem. Federal authorities were also considering how to combat the growing mosquito population - including spraying the sewage-filled floodwaters.

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"I think we need to prepare the country for what's coming," Chertoff said on "Fox News Sunday." "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine."

[RoBear]

1. At least those folks at the Hyatt got out okay!

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[expatriate]

2. Wow, they're delivering ALL THOSE SUPPLIES

a week later! Zowie gee! They're just realizing that the conditions there are creating toxic bacterial soup! What probity! What brain power!

Anyone who's ever lived there knows the water surrounding New Orleans, without the addition of all the stuff that has gone into the floodwaters since the levee breaches, is far from healthy. The Mississippi River is the sewer of the nation east of the Rockies. Lake Ponchartrain, though it has been reclaimed to a degree, became so polluted in the 1980's with hepatitis, cholera and other nasties that the once popular Lake Ponchartrain Beach was closed. The lake has been closed to swimming ever since, and there are dead zones in it.

Got Hep A myself when I was poor, living in New Orleans and shucking oysters for a living. The waters down there at the best of times are horribly contaminated. Add this to the brew? So bacteria ridden and toxic that it is beyond comprehension. Getting so much as a drop in your mouth is going to be dangerous.

And they're just catching on now?

[rainbow4321]

4. That's the thing...te feds are so friggin' REactive, no PROactive

Did ANYone at CDC, EPA, or FEMA have a nice little book or binder labeled "what health problems we will have in a major environmental flood/disaster"...they could have had this shit on the tarmac, loaded on a military plane pre-Katrina. Assume and prepare the worst and if it turns out you don't need it, well, it was a good drill, send the stuff back to the warehouses.
Now it just seems like they are at least 1 or 2 steps behind...disease breaks out and THEN they have to be told by the local officials what is needed. Real proactive feds we have here.

[CountAllVotes]

3. uh huh .....

I posted earlier on this and was rather trashed. Oh well. I WAS RIGHT.

My house was robbed a couple of weeks ago. Seeing all of what is quickly happening and fearing the very worst, I went out and bought a knife for cutting up fish/animals, a claw hammer and a baseball bat, items I never cared to purchase IN MY LIFE. I do not like guns and I do not want a gun.

All hell is breaking loose; diseases that can spread are some of the ones listed above! Hang on everyone and try to stay healthy and safe! Those using immune suppressing drugs, get away from them ASAP I would recommend if at all possible! Please listen! You will be needing your immune system, every last bit of it to survive! :scared:



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