Posted on 06/21/2019 9:14:21 AM PDT by conservative98
Trust me if I had booked a vacation to the Dominican Republic it would have been cancelled. There have been too many deaths and Dominican officials have not been adequately investigating why this is happening. There is a common thread of pulmonary edema on the autopsies, but local officials have been too quick to label the deaths as “heart attacks”. Tourism is a major industry and you would think local officials would do everything to find and eliminate the cause. Instead it appears there has been a whitewash of the facts.
What happens in the DR stays in the DR.
Obviously, the sharks developed a taste for human flesh from all the slaves that were tossed overboard during 18th and 19th centuries.
The son of good friends just had his wedding at The Hard Rock. Most of the guests, including the bride and groom, got pretty sick. Their story was headlined in The Daily Mail this past week. My husband talked to the dad yesterday and he’s pretty sure that they all suffered from food poisoning.
“People are just dying to go there.”
No they were dying to get home.
But this is different. These two people bring the total deaths of Americans in the DR or just returned, to 12 in the last couple of months. There are many more who became very ill but who didn't die. That is unusual and not normal.
Something either nefarious is happening by design or these are "coincidental" accidents happening to American tourists in the DR. I don't believe in that many coincidences.
Some "bug", tainted water, tropical virus, bad alcohol, something is killing these people and making many others ill.
Who in their right mind would want to go to the DR to vacation now after these multiple reports of death and illness befalling other Americans? Not I.
Seems like the State Department would put out a public warning about travel to the DR being risky at this time.
I don' t think anybody is going overboard on this. If anything, not enough attention is being paid to it.
I was referring to the death that was reported in 2016.
I LOVED that one!
My bad. It is helpful if I read more of the thread. Thanks.
There was a pathologist on Fox News this am that his belief it was insecticide poisoning. Something similar to this happened to a couple vacationing in the USVI’s a few years back. The hotel there was using an illegal insecticide that you can not smell see or taste. However, because the USVI’s are a US territory the bodies were preserved, flown home and toxicology autopsies were done in the US mainland. Apparently, the people also died of pulmonary edema.
So, it might just be a case of the resorts trying to kill roaches which thrive in the tropics. Unintentional poisoning.
The other possibility is that there is some psycho that is doing this on purpose to kill people by putting it into the booze in the mini bars. This could be a worker at the hotel or someone who works in the distribution chain where the alcohol comes from. That possibility would lead to random deaths wherever the booze is shipped to.
The problem is the pathologist stated it may take weeks to get back the toxicology results.
I also saw a report whe3re a person became deathly ill due to pesticide poisoning.
If only Americans are dying there is definitely foul play underway
I haven’t read anything about a bunch of dead locals. This means someone is intentionally poisoning Americans.
2,000,000 Americans vacation there annually, IIRC. The problem I have with these cases is the DR government & a wealthy DR investor seems to be trying to blame the people themselves. I would rather they at least acted concerned.
Yeah - I started wondering why all this in the news as if nobody ever died on vacation...seems like someone decided to focus on the Dominican Republic.
Of, course, w/o stats to see if this is really an outre` spate of deaths/purported reasons, we really don’t know what Paul Harvey would have finished with....
Thanks for the link.
This goes along with what the man stated on Fox News. Pesticide poisoning.
Many of the chemicals used in foreign countries are banded in the US.
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