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Chemtrail investigator Elora Gabriel learned that samples of hospital jumped from the usual 184 patients a day to 247. oily fallout collected by farmers, truck drivers and pilots in In New York City, doctors have been calling a flood of respira- Maryland and Pennsylvania were tested by Aqua-Tech tory cases "an epidemic". "We have people double- and triple- Environmental of Marion, Ohio, in September 1997 and found to parked in the ER on stretchers," Dr Elliot Friedman, Associate contain ethylene dibromide (EDB). This extremely hazardous Director of Emergency Medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical pesticide was banned by the US Environmental Protection Center in Queens, told the New York Times on 31 January. "And Agency (EPA) in 1983. there have been times when upwards of 40 people have been But, in 1991, the composition of jet fuel used by commercial admitted but are waiting for someone to be discharged," Friedman and military jet aircraft in the US was changed from JP4 to the added. somewhat less flammable JP8. A Department of Defense source "This high fever is not typical of other flus," Dr Sigurd says the move "has saved some lives" in air crashes. Ethylene Ackerman, President of St Luke's—Roosevelt Hospital Center told dibromide happens to be a key component of JP8. the Times shortly after a TV cameraman panned up to frame lin- The 1991 edition of Chemical Hazards of the Workplace gering X-shaped contrails over Times Square. warned that repeated exposure to low levels of ethylene dibro- Dr Robert Saken, a partner in the Soho Pediatrics Group, told mide results in "general weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, chest pains, that newspaper: "It was surprising to me how sick they got and coughing and shortness of breath, upper respiratory tract irrita- how quickly it happened." tion" and respiratory failure caused by swelling of the lymph Dr Ilya Spigland, Montefiore Hospital's Director of Virology, glands in the lungs. "Deterioration of the heart, liver and kidneys, doesn't know the reason for the sudden epidemic of respiratory and hemorrhages in the respiratory tract" can also result from pro- cases. Spigland told the New York Times that it is "very possible longed contact with JP8. that the increase in respiratory infections may not be due to the According to the EPA's hazardous flu". materials list: "Ethylene dibromide is That same day in Lake Havasu, a carcinogen and must be handled Severe headaches, nosebleeds, California, headlines in Today's News with extreme caution." A seven-page Herald announced: "Victims curse summary of this pesticide's extreme shortness of breath, joint pain unnamed bug, but can't call it the 'flu’." toxicity warns that EDB may also and dry, hacking coughs that MD Mary Lou Callername told the damage the reproductive system. The | , " . Herald that a nameless virus is bringing EPA also cautions: "Exposure can | Never leave are being reported at least 10 patients a day into her office irritate the lungs; repeated exposure 4 and driving some into the hospital, but may cause bronchitis, development of . by countless Americans that "laboratory tests show only a few are cough, and shortness of breath. It jamming hospital emergency suffering from Type A or other identifi- will damage the liver and kidneys." able strains of influenza". Mark Witten, a respiratory physiol- rooms from coast to coast. The previous weekend, after San ogist at the University of Arizona in Francisco resident Curtis Schumann Tucson where an official US Air noticed "sky grids in the making" and Force study on JP8 was carried out, told Scientist in March 1998 Melanie Zucker watched nine contrails being woven over that crew chiefs "seem to have more colds, more bronchitis, more Berkeley, local TV stations reported Bay Area emergency rooms chronic coughs than the people not exposed to jet fuel". inundated with flu-like cases. EDB is 6.5 times heavier than air. Unlike normal contrails, the In Seattle, one resident reported: "I've lived here for 26 years, thick, white streamers being sprayed from downward-pointing never seeing this number of contrails at once." And pneumonia tailbooms over at least 40 states do not dissipate, but spread into _ patient Lowell Barger told ENS that in the hospital where he was an overcast that refracts a purple colour in sunlight and appears admitted in late January, "their respiratory ward was overflowing suddenly as an oily film in puddles and ponds. with people, and they were having to put respiratory patients in other wards". RESPIRATORY & AUTO-IMMUNE EMERGENCIES At that time, a resident of Spokane listening to a police radio Hundreds of photographs and videotapes made by ground scanner told ENS that he'd heard "many rescue calls for people observers show pairs or larger formations of aircraft spreading a _ with breathing difficulties". white mist that thickens and drifts toward the ground. More than In Palmyra, New Jersey, shortly after Lucrecia Moon watched 200 eyewitnesses, including police officers, pilots, military and unusual lingering contrails outside a McDonald's restaurant, a public health personnel, have provided detailed accounts of aerial nurse reported "many people ill". spraying in characteristic Xs and east-to-west grid patterns, fol- Similar chemtrails sightings have been reported over Phoenix, lowed by occluded skies—and acute auto-immune reactions and Arizona. According to the 28 January 1999 edition of Arizona respiratory infections throughout affected regions. Republic: "The incidence of bronchial problems in Phoenix this Severe headaches, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, joint pain month is 237 hospitalizations versus last year at 160 or so." and dry, hacking coughs that "never leave" are being reported by At the same time, hospitals in Portland, Oregon; Marietta, countless Americans jamming hospital emergency rooms from Georgia; Chandler, Arizona; Bakersfield, Santa Cruz, Redding coast to coast. While December and January are traditionally bad and Salinas, California—and other cities across America—were months for asthma sufferers, patients, doctors and nurses across jammed with bronchitis, pneumonia and other acute respiratory the US report hospital wards filled to overflowing with bronchitis, cases after repeated spraying. Cobweb-like fallout was also pneumonia and acute asthma admissions at up to twice the normal reported in those regions. winter rates. "We're getting sprayed real heavily with the contrails," a south Ra 1 af Dalaieh Narth RESPIRATORY & AUTO-IMMUNE EMERGENCIES Hundreds of photographs and videotapes made by ground observers show pairs or larger formations of aircraft spreading a white mist that thickens and drifts toward the ground. More than 200 eyewitnesses, including police officers, pilots, military and public health personnel, have provided detailed accounts of aerial spraying in characteristic Xs and east-to-west grid patterns, fol- lowed by occluded skies—and acute auto-immune reactions and respiratory infections throughout affected regions. Severe headaches, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, joint pain and dry, hacking coughs that "never leave" are being reported by countless Americans jamming hospital emergency rooms from coast to coast. While December and January are traditionally bad months for asthma sufferers, patients, doctors and nurses across the US report hospital wards filled to overflowing with bronchitis, pneumonia and acute asthma admissions at up to twice the normal winter rates. Early last January, the News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, reported that respiratory admissions to Durham regional 20 - NEXUS APRIL —- MAY 1999 Continued on page 85