Posted on 04/25/2010 2:41:23 PM PDT by XHogPilot
At least 84 Afghan Schoolgirls Suffer Headaches and Vomiting.
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan - At least 84 Afghan schoolgirls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said.
The students were lining up outside their school in northeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday morning when a strange odor filled the school yard, and one girl collapsed, said the school's principal, who was herself in a hospital bed gasping for breath as she described the event.
"We took her inside and splashed water on her face," said Mossena, who like many Afghans goes by one name. Then other girls started passing out in the yard and they sent all the students home.
It was unclear if the incident was a deliberate attack on the school, though the Taliban and other conservative extremist groups in Afghanistan, who oppose girls education, have been known to target schoolgirls.
Mossena said she did not know what happened next because she collapsed and woke up in the main hospital in Muhmud Raqi, the capital of Kapisa province, which lies just northeast of Kabul.
At least 98 patients were admitted from Aftab Bachi school, including the principal, 11 teachers and two cleaners, said Khalid Enayat, the hospital's deputy director. He said about another 30 students were being monitored to see if they developed symptoms, although they were not admitted to the hospital. An official earlier said 89 schoolgirls had been hospitalized.
Tuesday's apparent attack is the third alleged poisoning at a girls' school in less than three weeks. It comes one day after 61 schoolgirls and one teacher from a school in neighboring Parwan province were admitted to a hospital after complaining of sudden illness. They were irritable, confused and weeping, (snip)
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@#$%! animals!
“In a dreadful setback for the Obama administration’s Afghanistan policy...”
They are wicked savages who are intimidated by any idea that was conceived after the 12th century.
Note - Aum ShinRiKyou Sarin attack on Tokyo subway system in ~1193 was proceeded by test runs on civvy targets.
1193 = 1993, sorry.
Carbon Monoxide?
Nah. CO is odorless. More like Tabun or Sarin. Smells like bug spray. If they smelled bitter almonds it was cyanide but that would be very lethal at most significant doses.
In another article they said it smelled like flowers which could be indicative of phosgene although without a better description of the symptoms it’d be very difficult to say what it was.
Usually phosgene has an odor like freshly cut grass, so that may not be it.
Your wards are too kind.
But I know you had to temper them for you to keep from suffering the wrath of the Admin Mods.
crickets chirping.
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