Yahoo! A team of seven US government investigators fell ill while studying the health impacts of the February derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals through East Palestine, Ohio, according to the CDC.
The group, including members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, were going house-to-house surveying town residents near contaminated areas when they began feeling symptoms including sore throats, headaches, coughing and nausea. The group spent a day working from their hotel, before their symptoms quickly resolved, the agency told CNN.
“Symptoms resolved for most team members later the same afternoon, and everyone resumed work on survey data collection within 24 hours. Impacted team members have not reported ongoing health effects,” a CDC spokesperson told the network.
The public health agency did not initially disclose the team getting sick to the public.
Two contractors working on the derailment for the EPA also reported health symptoms after working in an area with strong odors, CNN reported. The agency said that none of the other more than 100 EPA employees on the scene reported any issues. more
hmm, maybe the government should have sent one of their experts in chemistry. or maybe the point of the story is we have none. or maybe the point of the story is the men government has labeled “experts” are only capable of only one response. to re-affirm the politics of the day is not an “expert”. its not even journeyman.
Pawns in American Democrat game of life.
That’s only fair that the CDC gets sick because I’m thoroughly sick of the CDC.
In the 1950s, radioactive fallout from the Nevada atomic bomb tests fell on St. George Utah, when the wind shifted unexpectedly. People driving out of the fallout area were stopped by federal agents wearing full radiation-resistant suits, and had their cars hosed off before being allowed to continue. In subsequent years, children in St. George had extremely high rates of cancer. The children, and other victims of the bomb test radiation were written-off, and called “casualties of a war not yet fought.”
This sounds like that.
Hey, next they should send in the ATF.
Good! Send more government people. Send them all!
But everything is OK for the citizens.
Tony R – I disagree that the cleanup (or lack thereof) of a toxic derailment compares to the nuclear fallout of a nuclear test blast in a time of war.
At the time of the nuclear test blast, the extent of the fallout was theoretical. The chemicals in the train are well known. Both are unfortunate, but only one could have been avoided.
Tony R
AT 11:44 AM
“Hey, next they should send in the ATF.”
…will ATF be teaching CDC how to shoot dogs and nursing mothers?
Diagnosis: Severe case of karma.
Rx: Take two red pills and call your fellow citizens in the morning.
Tony R, a similar event occurred after radioactive Strontium 90 was released into the atmosphere at the Hanford nuclear reactor site in SE Washington state in the 1950’s and a lot of people downwind from the Strontium release developed unexplained Thyroid diseases including many people in Eastern Wash. as the Strontium cloud moved towards the N. East over the Spokane area. Some of my late wife’s family including my wife may have been affected by this as quite a few of them developed unexplained Thyroid disease. And it may be genetically passed down to our children as well since several of my nieces and nephews and at least one of my children have also developed it as well. We just don’t know if it did or not and probably never will know the full extent of what happened back then.
Probably just a bad case of Covid.
Have y’all had your shots?
SNS
AT 12:05 PM
“…will ATF be teaching CDC how to shoot dogs and nursing mothers?”
Only if they live long enough. 🙂
At least they’ll die knowing they sacrificed so Pete Buttygiggly could stay home and wetnurse his chillrun.
But, did they die? That’s what counts.
@Tony R. I’d say all of Nevada is contaminated with nuclear fall out. High incidence of leukemia and other cancers of residents of Elko, NV. I have friends who lived there. My friend didn’t escape sickness.
Golden fox: I know of more than a few in my age group who had thyroid cancer. The theory is that fallout from Chinese and Russian bomb tests in the 50s and 60s fell in the PNW, where it entered the soil, then into the grass, where it was consumed by cows, then into the cows milk, and then swallowed by kids, who developed the cancer by adulthood.