Lots of people or what?
Link to story on Myfoxstl
Not much yet - sounds strange.
Can not find any info on it yet online. Still looking. Wonder if it was a fake story passed to Fox somehow?
Anyone else hear the report just now?
What causes people’s skin to turn blue?
Skin turning blue in Emergency room... I KNOW I’VE HEARD THIS BEFORE!!!
It was something like a wierd reaction to some drug/chemical that reacted with oxygen from the air after the person was “opened up”.... Think Freepers... one of you must also have seen the same show that I saw... ???
O’bama blues?
or was he in Kansas City at the time.
something to do with the hurricane ?
Biden’s breath?
Chemical weapons ?
People turning blue. Lack of O2? Cyanide?
2 hospital ERs placed on lock down
05:46 PM CDT on Saturday, August 30, 2008
ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Two St. Louis area emergency rooms were placed on lock down Saturday afternoon after several people walked in and said they had been exposed to unknown substances, authorities said.
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St. Anthony’s Medical Center in south St. Louis was closed to new patients around 3:30 p.m. after three walked in and said they had been exposed to an unknown substance, Mehlville Fire Protection District Chief Jim Silvernail said.
Initial reports said the patients’ skin began turning blue. Silvernail said he was unable to confirm those reports.
Silvernail said the hospital’s ventilation system had been isolated, and people inside the hospital were not allowed to use the escalator.
A hazardous materials team set up decontamination tents in the hospital’s parking lot shortly after the incident was reported to authorities.
The emergency room at SSM DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton, Mo., was also placed on lock down after three people walked in and said they had been exposed to an unknown white powder, Silvernail said. An official said two of the patients were in critical condition.
The Pattonville Fire Protection District’s hazardous materials team planned to perform decontamination procedures on several dozen people who were inside the hospital.
Officials said another person taken to Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Ill., would be transferred to St. Louis University Hospital. Neither hospital was expected to be placed on lock down.
Silvernail said the incidents began in East St. Louis and appeared to be related.
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What are the signs and symptoms of ricin exposure?
•Inhalation: Within a few hours of inhaling significant amounts of ricin, the likely symp-toms would be coughing, tightness in the chest, difficulty breathing, nausea, and aching muscles. Within the next few hours, the body’s airways (lungs) would become severely in-flamed (swollen and hot), excess fluid would build up in the lungs, breathing would become even more difficult, and the skin might turn blue.
This probably makes me an insensitive jerk, but at first I thought it said, “People in St. Louis hospitals are sick.” Yeah, that’s why they’re there.
And I'm in St. Louis.