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Mystery illness claims 4 lives in Montgomery County (Texas)
KHOU 11 News Houston ^ | December 17, 2013 at 11:09 AM | DREW KAREDES

Posted on 12/18/2013 6:45:25 AM PST by BenLurkin

According to the health department, all of the patients have had flu-like and/or pneumonia like symptoms. However, all of them have tested negative for the flu.

There have been eight confirmed patients ranging in age from 41 to 68. Four of those patients have died.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: claims; health; illness; lives; montgomerycounty; mystery; mysteryillness; texas
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To: Marcella

The cedar pollen never affected me when I moved to the hill country in 1973, but has been rough on me the past 20 or so years.

We are in the center of the red cedar and I wish the state would take Hydro Mulchers, line them up and cut down every cedar tree from Ft Hood to San Antonio.

My neighbor came over yesterday and asked if it had already hit me. He says I am his cedar fever barometer so he can expect his wife to start sneezing.


41 posted on 12/18/2013 9:47:10 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Valpal1

OK. I was wrong. It was Mad Cow they spread by burning the cattle corpses. My bad.


42 posted on 12/18/2013 9:56:46 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Marcella

Nobody out sick at Brookshire Brothers or the associated Tobacco Barn.

They had heard of this though.


43 posted on 12/18/2013 9:59:53 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: grania
Here's a tip....milkfat and pneumonia can be a lethal combination. That's an opinion, not an acknowledged scientific fact.

After surviving 7 cases of pneumonia, I can say with some certainty that consuming milk always made the symptoms worse. I've dropped milk entirely from my diet. The few subsequent chest colds over the years did not progress into pneumonia.

44 posted on 12/18/2013 10:01:06 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Marcella

Damaged kidneys before symptoms sounds like poisoning to me.


45 posted on 12/18/2013 10:02:30 AM PST by Justa
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To: BenLurkin

A strain of hanta virus?


46 posted on 12/18/2013 10:04:20 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Justa

“Damaged kidneys before symptoms sounds like poisoning to me.”

People have died with unknown disease. WHERE ARE THESE FEDERAL AGENCIES TO SAVE US?:
FEMA,
HOMELAND SECURITY,
WHERE IS HUSSEIN VISITNG TO SHOW HIS CONCERN,
ERIC HOLDER TO PUNISH WHOEVER STARTED THIS,
DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES?

Oh, yes, I know why they don’t care - this is Texas so let them die. Actually, we will likely do better without their butting in.

Maybe this disease just stops where it is and no one presents with it again.


47 posted on 12/18/2013 10:15:12 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: humblegunner
“Nobody out sick at Brookshire Brothers or the associated Tobacco Barn. They had heard of this though.”

Maybe no more people will get it, whatever it is.

You know if it is still here to be caught, between Conroe and The Woodlands, people from Spring and Houston are in and out of this county all day. If it can be caught it will move all over Houston and if it is in cough spittle, consider it over Houston already.

This is all speculation so let's see what the experts find from the work they are doing right now. I'll stay in my self exile until I know what's happening.

48 posted on 12/18/2013 10:22:55 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella

You are wise to stay home.
Also, a little off subject, but with the winter solstice coming up/full moon, it is high holiday for the wicked. There is not much wicked around these days. Just sayin’.


49 posted on 12/18/2013 11:43:37 AM PST by SisterK (wise men still seek Him)
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To: null and void

please add me to bring out your dead ping list
I think I am tough enough


50 posted on 12/18/2013 11:47:24 AM PST by SisterK (wise men still seek Him)
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To: sneakers

bttt


51 posted on 12/18/2013 11:55:49 AM PST by sneakers ( Quinn: "Liberty is the solution to the human condition.")
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To: trisham

There have been eight confirmed patients ranging in age from 41 to 68. Four of those patients have died.

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Four so far. That’s a very high death rate.

There have been rumblings about this in the last few months... If it was the flu why hasn’t the media been pushing it as a diversion against bammy care....

Ny Guess... It is MERS and the media is burying it because of Saudi monies....


52 posted on 12/18/2013 12:18:11 PM PST by GraceG
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Not the flu...but Ping!, anyway!


53 posted on 12/18/2013 12:19:38 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Marcella

Mice carry hantavirus too, not just rats. You don’t have to be poor to get a mouse in the house, and the further you live out of town, the more they seem to try to invade in the fall.


54 posted on 12/18/2013 12:27:24 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Justa

sounds like hemolytic uremic syndrome which is most commonly caused by the toxic e coli sometimes found in raw meat. Of course there are a multitude of other causes as well.


55 posted on 12/18/2013 12:32:49 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: Smokin' Joe
“Mice carry hantavirus too, not just rats. You don’t have to be poor to get a mouse in the house, and the further you live out of town, the more they seem to try to invade in the fall.”

The more affluent tend to have household help so it's more likely a mouse will be caught than in a house where both parents work and household help cannot be afforded.

Certainly there will be more mice and rats in the country, but hopefully not in the house.

56 posted on 12/18/2013 12:50:16 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Cyber Liberty

“Thus releasing the spores over an even wider area. Brilliant.”

It’s the CDC (or some government agency) who does this. Apparently the spores are in the vent ducts and there is no way to clean a house.

I think they fill the house with kerosene, so it’s pretty fast and hot and everything gets cooked.


57 posted on 12/18/2013 12:53:27 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Apparently virii don’t have spores. But after what happened with the Mad Cow Disease, I don’t instantly assume fire is the correct approach.


58 posted on 12/18/2013 12:57:38 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping.


59 posted on 12/18/2013 12:58:33 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: GraceG
That’s a very high death rate.

Isn't that higher than the flu of 1918?

60 posted on 12/18/2013 12:59:46 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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