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Posted on 05/17/2004 12:36:39 AM PDT by JustPiper
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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
BREAKING NEWS
Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.
Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Why do you think they lifted the quarantine before test results are complete?
I'm surprised this even made it to the news...
If they've got it this would be a perfect way to spread it, along with those metal boxes of course.
Exactly, that popped out yelling helloooooo. Could be many reasons good and bad!!!!
Incredible to think something like that could happen with what we are reading and seeing every day. We really are in trouble if that's the best the governments can do.
Another article says they also quarantined a Wal Mart. Now they're saying it resembled "chicken pox".
Laurel hospital quarantined as precaution
Officials wanted to rule out smallpox
By ALAN MAIMON
amaimon@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Emergency officials quarantined part of a Laurel County hospital and a Wal-Mart distribution center for several hours last night after a truck driver was admitted with symptoms that resembled chickenpox.
Authorities acted because they wanted to rule out smallpox, said Joel Schrader, deputy director for information and intelligence at the Kentucky Department of Homeland Security.
The situation proved to pose no threat to public safety, said Brian Reams, Laurel County's emergency management director.
It was not clear last night how many workers the quarantine affected.
The truck driver, whose identity was not released, was traveling on Interstate 75 near London, in southeastern Kentucky, about 4:15p.m. when he reported to his company that he felt ill, said Stacy Floden, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management.
The driver pulled off the road and was taken by ambulance to Marymount Medical Center about 5p.m.
Marymount decided to isolate its employees, patients and visitors. The quarantine was lifted about 10p.m. after it conferred with Dr. Rice Leach, the state's commissioner of public health.
A representative from the driver's company, Snyder Trucking, then took the truck to the Wal-Mart distribution center in London, Floden said.
The distribution center, the ambulance that took the trucker to the hospital and the area of the hospital where the driver was admitted all were quarantined as a precaution, Floden said.
Schrader said his department did not suspect terrorism.
The symptoms of chickenpox include a fever, a generally sick feeling and red skin blisters that itch.
"The patient in question remains in isolation. Nurses and doctors are using special gowns and robes to treat him. He's still suffering from a high fever and other circumstances, about which the hospital will not elaborate."
The hospital locked down until they put him in an isolation unit. They can lift the lockdown once he's in a "special room." This room would have reverse air flow.
Anyone who would not have had close contact would then be allowed to leave the hospital.
The hospital still doesn't quite know what's going on, because the staff is still using the special isolation gear. I watched the video at this link:
http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1878907&nav=4CALNEzX
and it still makes me wonder just what the heck is going on.
Hospital staff was given the choice of going to the decontamination unit. (let me tell you, if a hospital asks you IF you want to go to the decon unit.....you just go!)
WKYT site says they should know the results this afternoon.
I didn't know you were a nurse - that's so cool. My daughter-in-law is studying to be a nurse.
"Theyre taking it out of my jurisdiction, stated Sheriff Kent Harris, who apprehended the men last Saturday after a high speed chase on a little-used state highway.
We may never know what they were doing.
This country really does not give a hoot does it?
Hopefully, it's chicken pox. Adults who contract chicken pox can become very sick, very quickly. But why would the trucker himself think he had small pox??
I just asked about that incident this morning. So it too has fallen into the abyss.
The trucker probably thought he had smallpox because he was up on the latest terror info, and because chicken pox rarely strikes adults. Pretty smart guy.
Thanks WCG, I must have overlooked your response this morning.
I expected that that would be the end of that.
Does anyone have anymore news on this?!
FoxNews: Expended rocket launcher found in Atlanta
FoxNews ^ | May 18, 2004 | FNC
Posted on 05/18/2004 1:28:32 PM PDT by mikegi
Live video of police examining the scene. An expended rocket launcher tube found near a Marta station east of Atlanta.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1138004/posts
I am going to be adding DOD news daily:
A large-scale chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear training exercise will be held at the Pentagon on beginning at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT. See press advisory for details.
http://www.defenselink.mil/advisories/2004/pa20040517-0401.html
National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of May 19, 2004
A cumulative roster of all National Guard and Reserve who are currently on active duty can be found at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2004/d20040519.pdf.
Lucky you. :-)
Homeland Intel: Al Qaeda Wants Chemical Strike
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120316,00.html
Sarin not evidence of WMD: Blix
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/printpage/0,5481,9593577,00.html
Giuliani: N.Y. Never Warned About Attack
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_commission_42
Sivits Sentenced for Role in Iraq Abuse
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_prison_abuse_21
Maybe it's just me, but all these training exercises and drills lead me to believe that the gov't is expecting something to happen, soon.
OH WHEEEEEE!
how UNwonderful!
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