Re: Radiation sickness vs. bird droppings

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

My first guess as to some individuals suffering nausea and diahrrea after 

drinking from barrels looted from an abandoned site is bacterial contamination. 



Where are all the pidgeon's hanging out in Iraq now that all the statues of 

Saddam and all the Ba'ath notables have been toppled? Not completely suggested in 

jest. Perhaps the pidgeons are now defacating on the roofs of buildings with 

occasional runoff being put into barrels [obtained from who knows where] because 

the water supply is not up and running.  The resultant intestinal diseases due to 

contaminated water that has not been chlorinated to overcome the effects of bird 

droppings and bacteria could easily be claimed to be due to radiation exposure. 

Makes for a sensationalistic story and headline anyway.



Stewart Farber

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5/20/03 11:59:40 AM, John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM> wrote:



>

>

>  Without a medical workup this is all speculation.  My first guess is

>  malnutrition.  

>  Jim Hoerner <jim_hoerner@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>

>  Radiation sickness

>  5/16/2003 10:18 AM

>  By: Capital News 9 web staff

>

>  [There is also a video available at the cited link. The people supposedly

>  suffering from acute radiation sickness look pretty healthy to me. Not what

>

>  I would expect if it were true. - JH]

>

>  Amar doesn't go out much these days. He said he's been sick ever since he

>  drank water from a plastic barrel looted from nearby Al-Tuwaitha, Saddam's

>  biggest nuclear research complex.









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