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>Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:33:02 +0000 >To: "UFO Roundup Subscribers 1": ; >From: John Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 10 (...) >WEIRD SKIN DISEASE SPREADS >TO THREE MORE STATES > > "Federal health officials remain baffled over what is >causing rashes (also known as dermatitis--J.T.) that have >afflicted schoolchildren in 14 states" of the USA "since >October," 2001. > "The mysterious rashes, typically appearing on the >face, neck, hands and arms, have lasted from a few hours >to two weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" >reported on Thursday, February 28, 2002. > "Although they don't appear to be serious, the rashes >have alarmed parents. During one outbreak at Marsteller >Middle School in Manassas, Virginia, roughly 300 of the >school's 940 students were affected, says Irene Cromer, >spokeswoman for Prince William County Schools. Officials >closed the school twice as they searched unsuccessfully >for an environmental or other cause, she says." > "Bacteria, fungi, cleaning products, pesticides and >viruses have been suspected, but a common cause hasn't >been found, the CDC report states." > "Carol Rubin, a CDC epidemologist, says a common >thread is a lack of symptoms other than the rash. The CDC >report says people with rashes caused by infectious agents >typically have other symptoms, such as a fever or >headache." > "'Each state is a little bit different,' Rubin says, > 'It's likely that there is more than one thing going >on.'" > "The CDC will continue to collect information from >the local and state health departments to see whether >there is a pattern, she says." > "Outbreaks have been reported in Arizona, >Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi, New >York (state), Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, >Virginia, Washington (state) and West Virginia." > Since the last report about the mysterious skin >disease in UFO Roundup, new cases have popped up in three >more states--Arizona, Connecticut and Georgia. > "In Martinsville, Indiana, 18 third graders (8-year- >old children) and a substitute teacher at Waverly >Elementary School came down with the rashes last fall." > "'They looked pretty miserable, itchy,' says Wayne >Staggs, an epidemologist with the Indiana Department of >Health. The rashes disappeared in three or four days." > "Health officials checked classrooms and the school's >playground. They ruled out every theory they had." > "'It's just a mystery,' Staggs says." (See USA Today >for March 1, 2002, "CDC scratching its head over school >rashes," page 3A. Also UFO Roundup, volume 7, number 8 >for February 19, 2002, "Mysterious rash afflicts children >in several states of the USA," page 6.) ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo" -- The Holy Mad Cow
