Posted on 10/17/2016 7:11:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The bizarre incident began around 3 a.m. Wednesday when the elderly woman's caregiver, a 52-year-old woman, called authorities to say people were vandalizing her car.
A deputy responded to the home, on East Bay Road in North Bend, but found nothing. The caregiver called back at 5:30 a.m. and was then taken to Bay Area Hospital after deputies suspected the woman might be having a medical issues causing hallucinations.
Medical personnel checked her, she appeared fine and returned home.
Then the two deputies who worked with the caregiver began having hallucinations and had to be hospitalized. After that, the 78-year-old woman and a hospital employee started showing similar symptoms and had to be hospitalized as well.
The Coos County Haz Mat Team responded to Bay Area Hospital and the residence on East Bay Road. The team cleared the emergency room and began decontaminating vehicles and equipment.
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Sounds like ‘ergot’ in the air.
Anyone got any ideas?
Some virus that doesn’t require touching, that spreads hallucinations as a symptom?!?!
LSD?
If ergotamine is used for migraines I suppose it could cause hallucinations.
It’s Oregon.
They’re probably Hillary voters.
Anyone who wants to vote for the likes of her MUST be hallucinating.
ghosts....demons.....apocalyptic plague....cats & dogs living together.....
No clue - can’t think of anything that would transmit from an apartment to an emergency room. Would guess due to skin-skin contact. Nurse touched her, cops touched her, 78 year she cared for. My guess she was taking something and it sweated out of her pores. Hopefully they do a FULL tox screen.
Airborne, probably originating in the house where the woman was caring for the 78 year old. Enough in the lungs to spread into the air in the cop car. Police were exposed when they went to the house. Clothing of the woman who went into the ER would have carried what is the producer of the molecule. Police uniforms also need decontamination.
It sounds too fast-acting to be a virus. Either some kind of gas, or spores in the air.
shrooms?
shrooms?
“It’s true, that man has no d***.”
Source is more than likely spores in the air ...
Wow. Interesting. Thanks.
That makes sense.
Never heard of this happening before.
Everyone’s into essential oil diffusers these days, drives my sister nuts because they are using them in the hospital there. Maybe someone was experimenting with weird essential oils
Unless the sequence in the report is incorrect, the 78 year old woman for whom she was caregiver would have have much more contact with whatever was behind this, yet she didn’t begin to hallucinate until after several others had already begun to do so. If she was aware that her caregiver’s hallucinatory condition seemed to be spreading to others, it could have been some sort of hysterical, psychosomatic reaction, I guess. Or, maybe she’d developed some sort of partial immunity due to frequent contact? No idea really, just speculating based upon what was reported.
Origin will be in the house ... a mold spewing spores.
Interesting -— and scary. Can ergot get airborne and get inhaled? I’d always heard of it being ingested orally, for instance in contaminated barley products.
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