In addition to an unknown number of hospital employees, 18 people who worked for the post office and courthouse in Pike County, Kentucky broke out in
unexplained itching and rash while at work. Offices were evacuated after employees came down with symptoms and subsequently were treated at
Williamson Regional Hospital:
Post Office, Courthouse Workers Treated After Mysterious Itching And Rash Breaks Out
The incident occurred at around 10:30 a.m. Several employees who work in the Pike County post office started complaining of intense itching. They work
in the same building as the courthouse and employees there felt the same symptoms.
The entire building was evacuated, and 18 people were treated at an area hospital. The Williamson Regional Hospital emergency room was evacuated and
decontaminated later in the day after one of the people who work in the courthouse went to the hospital on his own. Soon after, hospital employees
complained of similar symptoms. Patients had to be taken to another hospital while crews de-contaminated the ER.
No one apparently knows what caused the skin reaction so far. I'm really disturbed that whatever caused this may have "followed" the employees
over to the hospital where hospital employees themselves began to show symptoms, and they felt the need to decontaminate the emergency room!
