"Five deaths in Texas and Mississippi have already been attributed to contact with the toxic water, the CDC reported Wednesday, as New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin ordered forced evacuations of residents remaining in the city. Though a large scale outbreak of infectious disease has yet to materialize, the health risks posed by the polluted water remained a top health concern."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168706,00.html

Earlier this afternoon it was 3 dead; now it's 5. And yet......thousands STILL refuse to leave their homes and are placing the rescuers in further risk for their own lives.

And YET.....Gov Blanco STILL refuses to back up the Mayor of New Orleans' decision to enforce the Mandatory evacuations that have been in place since last Sunday. She says that is HER deision to make...and she hasn't made it.

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Thanks for pointing this out, JP! Stupid leaders, stupider people. The USA is full of'em.

Hello dixieland... ahh the deepsouth. The USA's thirdworld region. Next time, less pleas for blessings from invisible beings, more listenning to scientist and engineers.

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I read and my son in law who is an infectous desease specialist (MD) said that those 5 apparently died from an infection caused by a bug that is very closely related to cholera. This is very very very scarry and serious.

I don't mean to sound mean but these evacuees need to be given anti-biotics and quaranteed before they are sent to far off places.

As JP pointed out Texas has taken in a quarter million. How many of them are infected and will they spread diseases to their hosts ?

I realize that by saying what I said I may be accused of racism, eleeitism, arroganc etc. Yet we must help the evacuees but we need to make sure that we to not unnecessarily place the noble hosts at risk.

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They're going to have to hurry up and drag these people out of there. The more that continue to die, the worse the diseases get, the longer it takes to clean up.

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My daughter and son in law are both in the medical fileld ( respectively infectious desease and trauma specialist ) and they told us this past weekend that they have made arraangement with their employer ( Hospital ) to grant them a leave of absence and they are flying down to Atlanta to await their exact assignments. They got heir shoots this morning and I will be driving them to the airport.

I am of course very very proud of both of them but as a Dad very uneasy.

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Not selfish at all, F100.

These southern states suffering the most have always been the ass-end of USA. That y'all in the north even give a (*)(*)(*)(*) about these thirdworld states that can't even take care of themselves is admirable.

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f100supersabr you should be very proud. Without people like your daughter and son in law donating their expertise, this country could not function. It takes many different types of professions to clean up this mess.


And ted, what southern states exactly are you referring to? I don't live in a third world state.

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to answer your question..


How the CSA ever thought they could destroy the USA with those loosers in tow is beyond me.

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oh yes you're right. As I speak, I'm sitting here shirtless eating a bowl of rice with flies crawling all over my face.
And Sally Strothers is walking around with a video camera.

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lol Sick. It's all relative. Figuratively and literally in the case of our thirdworld deepsouth brethren.

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The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts