At least 6 schools experienced sudden mass outbreak of unkown illness in the last week

I don't know if this has already been mentioned but there has been a small outbreak of tuberculosis in North Texas. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone actually having TB...i know there are thousands of people each year that die from TB in the US, I have just never encountered it.

128 tb tests confirmed positive

Univ. of North Texas issues tuberculosis alert

Again, schools.

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I am not claiming this has anything to do with Ebola virus, but it is extremely lethal to the people who get it first, then it become less and less lethal until it just fades away. Everyone on site for this mystery illness got sick, was there any follow up. Did those who were in contact after this "active stage" feel any effects. Nurses especially should keep a log of any symptoms they may have felt after treating sick kids.

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I worked with a boy who had TB. He had no symptoms and was taking medication. He didn't look ill or behave in a way that I could have discerned he had TB. It is only apparant in later stages. It does seem to be making a come back.

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Good find...i love piecing stuff like this together...
very interesting read

Anyway you look at this, there is no way possible the kids at the football game were hit with anything except environmental.
Virus's do not effect people at the exact same time, nor do infections.

This was a gas exposure from the ground. Yes, it could have only effected a few. Depending on where their probity was to the fumes.
Someone in the crowd reported a strong foul smell right before everyone was sickened.


Aa I said before Hydrogen Sulfite exposure, the symptoms match.

Thanks,
Pax

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Look at this article. There is even video where a doctor is saying they could have been poisoned by nearby buses or generators.

The source of the illness has yet to be pinpointed, but doctors say it's entirely possible this is carbon monoxide poisoning.

At least one of the 22 Austin High School students who suddenly became sick was diagnosed and treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.

"They call carbon monoxide the silent killer because it's odorless, tasteless, can't see it," said emergency medicine specialist Dr. Robert Szema with Memorial Hermann Hospital, Memorial City.

Szema says carbon monoxide cuts off oxygen to your body. Your symptoms depend on your level of exposure and can include dizziness, nausea, seizures and even death.

The symptoms are so vague, Szema says it's sometimes hard to tell that you've been exposed to carbon monoxide.

"It usually it happens when you don't have enough ventilation in the area, but it's possible even if you're outdoors if you're in close proximity to a CO source that you will get CO poisoning as well," he explained.

Experts say the students could have been exposed from standing by buses or generators. We spoke with an assistant chief at the Houston Fire Department who said none of their readings picked up high levels of carbon monoxide when they tested for it.

Doctors: Carbon monoxide may be to blame for student illness

I'm not sure if this relates to the other stories or not, but a local school here in South Carolina had 100 children fall ill from Shigella. I had never heard of this sickness before I saw this on the news.
Shigella Outbreak

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Yes, I came across that story a few hours ago, and SEVERAL MORE. I am now in the process of drawing an updated map and putting together all the new information. Give me another 30 mins.

PS - yes it is DEFINITELY related because the symptoms of Shigella are EXTREMELY similar, and I've found several Shigella events within the last 2 weeks.

Originally posted by Noey777
And they had tails like scorpions ,and there was stings in their tails and their power was to hurt men five months

What the hells is that supposed to mean? DIVVY

Very strange story though, reminds me of an old x-files episode were the smoking mans group did a test run of the alien virus using a school as the test subject.. Good episode. Of course I'm not saying that's what has happened here, just that it reminded me of it. Also didn't the fascist government in V for Vendetta target a school with their disease?

Updated Map with 4 more events:

All Worth County Schools, Worth County, Missouri - 260 people ill - 28th Oct 2011

Worth County, GA (WALB) - Worth County schools are being disinfected to protect students from a bacterial infection. Schools are closed Monday and Tuesday because of a Shigella outbreak. It is an intestinal bacterial infection.

And it is not just confined to schools, already 260 possible cases have spread throughout the community. George Hall is a concerned parent. He said, "Kids touch each other at a young age and contact is what is spreading the virus."

While school is closed, classrooms are being cleaned and sanitized. They are fogging, they are bringing in a machine and it kinds of mists the entire room so all surfaces in classrooms are getting fogged.

School buses are also being disinfected. School officials say bus drivers have all been given cleaning solution so daily they will be cleaning down the buses.

School closed for disinfecting after Shigella outbreak

Pittsburgh Montessori School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 157 people ill - 27th Oct 2011

City school administrators canceled classes today at Pittsburgh Montessori PreK-8 so maintenance crews can clean the school in response to an unusually high number of student and staff illnesses.

Officials with the Allegheny County Health Department determined the norovirus, commonly called stomach flu, likely caused the illnesses. The highly contagious virus causes symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain.

"Fortunately, this is not life-threatening condition for the children," said Guillermo Cole, health department spokesman. "They should get better in a day or two."

Half of the school's 300 students and seven staff members were absent on Thursday, said Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh. Administrators don't know whether all suffered from stomach flu.

"We just know that many were out," Pugh said. "It's a significant number. When we see something like that, we want to address it really quickly."

Pittsburgh Montessori PreK-8 cancels classes amid illnesses

Fairview Elementary School, Oconto County, Wisconsin - 23 people ill - Oct 27 2011

CHASE — Oconto County health officials are looking into what could have caused nearly two dozens Fairview Elementary School students to go home sick this week with gastrointestinal symptoms that included vomiting.

No classes were held at the school on Friday and Pulaski School District Superintendent Mel Lightner said the source of the sickness was unknown Friday. The Oconto County Public Health Division is investigating, and test results will be available early next week.

“We had 12 students that did not attend school on Thursday. The majority of them had symptoms of nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. We sent 11 children home on Thursday,” Lightner said Friday.

Workers cleaned doorknobs, bathrooms and “everything that kids come in contact with,” Lightner said. School is set to reopen Monday.

Pulaski closes Fairview Elementary for today because of sick students

Honea Path Elementary School, Anderson County, S. Carolina - 80 people sick - Oct 27 2011

This month, WSPA, a regional CBS affiliate, reported that a major outbreak of Shigella has sickened 80 people at the Honea Path Elementary School in Honea Path, South Carolina. According to the report, so far the sick include students, staff and parents. The outbreak came on quickly and the school has begun extensive cleaning efforts to get the outbreak under control.

Symptoms can include abdominal pain, cramps, diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and blood, pus, or mucus in stools. Shigella is principally a disease of humans and the organism is frequently found in water polluted with human feces.

Shigella Outbreak Sickens 80 at South Carolina Elementary School

And what are the symptoms of Shigella infections?

Shigella are bacteria that can infect the digestive tract and cause a wide range of symptoms, from diarrhea, cramping, vomiting, and nausea, to more serious complications and illnesses.

Shigella Infections

** also please note that these 4 events took place before the other 6 events **

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do we know if the infected are rh- (blood type)? Any death yet?

So anyway a few week back 136 students fainted all at once, not in the US mind. Guess what they blamed it on? Trees... that's right Trees, read about it here www.phnompenhpost.com...

This is crazy, it's like Nyos Lake in AFrica after the lake belched. Could it be coming from the ground? All these locations are in areas where the ground is active-Michigan the ground is splitting open, Virginia earthquakes, etc.
However, for this to be happening at schools is kinda fishy-Is someone testing out a dirty bomb?

I'm really not getting what the big deal is here.
First, this is in the school system, and it's widely known that when one kid has lice, a hundred others do within a day. The American school system has how many schools? How many students?
This isn't shocking or unusual.
The Norovirus is extremely rapid and easily spread, but thankfully its effects are pretty much limited. This is nothing like your average flu virus and doesn't pose anywhere near the same risk to vulnerable people.

And this is at the start of winter.

The only thing "unusual" here is that someone chose to research something they suspected and uncovered stories from numerous states that most people wouldn't know anything about.

If you actively look for something, you'll find it. This happened in the "Dangerous Dogs" witch-hunt in the UK years ago. After one attack by a vicious dog the tabloid trash went out looking for more "horrific" stories. And of course they found them. They reported them all as though something new was happening, when in reality attacks by vicious dogs hadn't risen at all.
The hysteria this caused through ignorant people who trusted the reporters more than science has led to hundreds of thousands of perfectly safe animals being murdered by the state.

It was perhaps a perfect example of how propaganda works through saturation and suggestion. You don't need to have evidence for anything, you just need to give people "the feeling" that something is going on and sow the seeds for their imagination to take over.

I praise the OP for the inquisitive mind and healthy suspicion, but I don't support the idea that all reason be abandoned for the sake of a good scare.

Originally posted by A NeWorlDisorder
I don't know if this has already been mentioned but there has been a small outbreak of tuberculosis in North Texas. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone actually having TB...i know there are thousands of people each year that die from TB in the US, I have just never encountered it.

128 tb tests confirmed positive

Univ. of North Texas issues tuberculosis alert

Again, schools.

I'm sure it's another coincidence but amusing none the less, "doctors now have a Super Vaccine" in northern texas".
dfw.cbslocal.com...

Here is a general summary of all 10 events. They started to appear around the 27th of October (12 days ago). It's impossible to find a bunch of stories like this before that date. Go ahead and try.



Barnett Stadium, Houston, Texas - 4th Nov 2011

- 23 spontanously ill and go to hospital
- HazMat team and firefighters called in
- same symptoms as other events
- suspected to be carbon monoxide poisoning
- air tests all come back negative

St. John Central High School, Belmont County, Ohio - 3rd Nov 2011

- 14 spontaneously ill and go to hospital
- emergency responders called in
- same symptoms as other events
- no idea what caused the event
- air tests all come back negative

Platte River Elementary School, Benzie County, Michigan - 2nd Nov 2011

- more than 100 ill in same day
- health officials called in
- same symptoms as other events
- suspected to be the Norovirus
- entire school disinfected

Joy Elementary School, Sioux City, Iowa - 2nd Nov 2011

- more than 85 ill in same day
- same symptoms as other events
- no idea what caused the event
- entire school disinfected

Gibbs High School, Knoxville, Tennessee - 1st Nov 2011

- 3 suddenly ill and go to hospital
- no idea what caused the event
- the whole event is blacked out

Alcott Elementary School, Hastings, Nebraska - 28th Oct 2011

- more than 80 ill in same day
- same symptoms as other events
- unofficially said to be Norovirus
- entire school disinfected

All Worth County Schools, Worth County, Missouri - 28th Oct 2011

- at least 260 ill in community
- same symptoms as other events
- cause is claimed to be Shigella
- entire schools disinfected

Pittsburgh Montessori School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 27th Oct 2011

- at least 157 ill in same day
- same symptoms as other events
- cause is claimed to be Norovirus
- entire school disinfected

Fairview Elementary School, Oconto County, Wisconsin - Oct 27 2011

- at least 23 ill within days
- same symptoms as other events
- no idea what caused the event
- entire school disinfected

Honea Path Elementary School, Anderson County, S. Carolina - Oct 27 2011

- at least 80 ill in same day
- same symptoms as other events
- cause is claimed to be Shigella
- entire school disinfected

When it comes to these sick people:

How many were vaccinated against the flu or swine flu compared to those that weren't vaccinated?

I'm not a crazy anti-vaccine person but they do carry a small amount of the virus they vaccinate against. Maybe a batch had a little too much? Maybe these people's systems were more suseptible

this is what happens when infrastructure goes down the drain
and humans get used to sloppy and poor service,

id say food poisoning by no doubt

sssch , there e coli in the sallad ,

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LOL! That is hilarious.

A day after 136 students collapsed at a Kompong Cham high school while standing at attention as punishment for not showing deference to the national flag, the local police chief offered a unique explanation for the mass fainting – trees.

“According to the hospital’s analysis, the reason why the students fainted is [because of] the huge tree in the school compound and the farmland surrounding the school, which absorbed the oxygen,” said Heng Meng, police chief of Chamkar Leu district, adding that the punishment could not be blamed as one of the teachers “also [had difficulty breathing] and felt dizzy”.

Heng Phal Rith, school director of Bosknor high school in Chamkar Leu district, also cited the hospital’s report in blaming the incident on a lack of oxygen, adding that he “did not punish the students. It is just a rumour”.

A doctor from the local hospital, Iv Then, said that based on his examination, the lack of oxygen was due to an abundance of trees, which trapped the oxygen, adding that the first four or five students fainted because they were standing under the school’s large medicinal oil tree.

Hmmmm....don't trees typically produce oxygen?

World Health Organization representative Dr Pieter van Maaren said that while he was not a biologist by trade, the explanation admittedly sounded a bit odd.

“Dating back to my own biology classes, green plants and trees actually produce oxygen rather than capture it, so I’m a bit puzzled by [the explanation],” he said, adding that if they had said that the trees were producing a certain smell that affected the students’ composure, it might be more plausible.

EDIT: It looks like that event may have happened on Monday or Tuesday (24th-25th). Only a few days before the earliest event I could find in the US.

Originally posted by A NeWorlDisorder
I don't know if this has already been mentioned but there has been a small outbreak of tuberculosis in North Texas. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone actually having TB...i know there are thousands of people each year that die from TB in the US, I have just never encountered it.

128 tb tests confirmed positive

Univ. of North Texas issues tuberculosis alert

Again, schools.

I think schools would be the best point of origin for a disease outbreak if someone would intentionally want to infect a nation. Kids go home, infect the parents, all you have to do then is wait for mass outbreaks.

Not saying this is intentional but 6 in a week is weird to say the least, maybe something in the foods?