[Vidalia]

Agreed with the possibilities, but "the gut" says something is odd about this whole medical scenario.

McAuliffe, Inouye and the other toadies who showed up is typical sleaze, but the super secrecy about Mink's actual condition, regardless of the deadline to commit, would not have changed the big picture concerning the election.

The body will be cremated and that source of physical observation will end, but the cultures will not, if they are kept at all.

The source of the pox is still suspect, for aging frail politicians usually avoid illness prone areas "like the plague".

I'll ask the big question.

What else of late in the news shows symptoms of both pneumonia and chicken pox at one sitting ...?

[mewzilla]

By "chicken pox" could the author have been referring to the shingles? Or can the herpes zoster virus manifest in something other than the chicken pox and shingles? And did Rep. Mink contract the pneumonia in or out of the hospital?