(Yonkers-WABC, May 17, 2002) — Health officials are trying to figure out what made several people in Yonkers extremely ill Thursday evening. Whatever made them sick was potent enough to leave several of them in serious condition at St. Joseph's hospital, and to prompt an evacuation of their neighborhood.
At first there was concern that an airborne agent might be involved in the incident, however experts on the scene report that was not the case. Family members of some of those sickened say their loved ones had just returned from a visit overseas, and brought home vegetables that were cooked with some meat and eaten at a celebratory meal. They reportedly blamed their illness on the meat they'd eaten, however doctors involved say this is not like any case of food poisoning they've ever seen.
Members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control were on the scene Thursday, and continue to investigate the cause of the illnesses
Let's say they just returned from handling cyanide (maybe they were visiting Mexico) and some residue remained on there clothes, skin, whatever. Then they arrived home, fixed dinner, the dry cyanide mixed with liquid and voila.
I was just reading several articles about cyanide because of the report that 9 1/2 tons were missing from that shipment in Mexico last Sunday.
You never know.
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