Posted on 08/30/2008 4:15:16 PM PDT by penelopesire
Just breaking on Fox. Not much info yet. People walking into are hospitals in St. Louis sick, skin turning blue and with breathing problems. Hospitals on Lock down.
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They just mentioned it on Fox News....sounds very scary folks!
Thanks for the post. Very suspicious indeed. Trying to catch up in thread.
There are a lot of St. Louis County folks who go over to the east side to party at the 24 hour bars over there. (it could be the people who are sick came back home at went to hospitals closer to their homes)
There are also a lot of chemical plants on the east side.
(OxyChem is just one of them, Monsanto is another)
There are many crack houses on the east side. (any kind of drug you want you can get it over there without even getting out of your car.)
LOL...love all the pics. The story is intriguing though. :)
LOL!!
Nitrates can cause methemeglobin.
Depends on the concentration.. With high concentrations it only takes moments.
With lesser concentrations you can have up to a couple of hours.
UPDATED VIDEO:
http://www.kmov.com/video/topvideo-index.html?nvid=277736
They think they know what chemical it is, but they are not releasing info right now. 7 people involved..2-3 in critical condidtion.
??????
Also there is a Toluene plant over there that gets broken into all the time.
Hypoxia is symptom of Toluene exposure.
I bet these 7 people broke into the Toluene plant on the east side. (it happens all the time)
Looking for copper probably. There was a guy that fried himself in DFW the other day climbing up a power pole to steal copper. Terrible video..he later died.
Meth and crack make people do the dumbest things....(eye roll)
I am a chemist by profession and you are absolutely correct. Cyanide poisoning to such a degree as to cause the skin to turn blue would be fatal in minutes. Ricin is possible, but tends to work slowly unless a massive dose was administered. Someone mentioned 1-naphthylamine - not likely as this is one of the more powerful carcinogens around and is hard to obtain. Ricin is made relatively easily from castor beans. Maybe someone was trying to make biodiesel from castor beans? That's at least a non-terrorsism answer to Ricin poisoning.
I work with toluene daily - you’d have to really inhale a ton of it. Ingestion would not cause this. No, likely something more biological in nature.
Silver ultimately turns skin black. Silver nitrate burns leave your skin black.
Thanks you all for sharing your expertise. We can always count on Freepers to educate, iluminate and entertain!!
UPDATE!!
CHEMICAL was p-nitroaniline...???
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=153562&catid=3
That was the story I was thinking of and there was no blue skin.
Hmmm.... it is a dye intermediate - but not all too common. Rather toxic stuff though and like all nitro compounds, it can go BOOM. It’s an aromatic compound, with an amino (NH2) at position 1 on a benzene ring, and a nitro (NO2) at position 4 on the ring. Wonder how they came into contact with that??? Good news though - defintitely not terrorism.
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