'"Extended stay America" suite'?
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Posted on 02/29/2008 3:14:39 AM PST by maquiladora
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Preliminary tests indicate that a package found at a motel contained the toxin ricin, and seven people have been taken to hospitals, authorities said.
Police were called to the Extended Stay America Motel on Thursday and retrieved a package from the motel manager that was determined to be a chemical or controlled substance, Officer Ramone Denby said.
Two preliminary tests indicate it contained ricin, he said. Results from further tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a second local lab are expected Friday, police said.
Homeland Security officials joined local police in the investigation. Officials from the FBI, Las Vegas Health District, a hazardous materials team and the National Guard were also at the scene.
Officers cordoned off the area and isolated the room where the substance was found.
Three motel employees and another person were quarantined and decontaminated at the site, then taken to hospitals for further testing, Denby said. All appeared to be in good condition, he said. Three police officers who had been exposed were also taken to hospitals.
It takes between six and eight hours for someone exposed to ricin to show signs of contamination, Denby said.
A woman who answered the phone at the motel declined comment.
Ricin is made from the waste left over from processing castor beans, and can be extremely lethal. As little as 500 micrograms, or about the size of the head of a pin, can kill a human, according to the CDC.
Before the day is over the press reports will change to, Error, “testing” indicates the substance was not ricin. Nothing to see here, move along........
A case of a terrorist with 'Attention Deficit'?
OR. . .a traveling scientist, with the same.?
Just realised this was posted already, sorry for putting it in breaking.
Not good if found to be ricin.
.....Bob
had Putin been staying there??
“Three motel employees and another person were quarantined and decontaminated at the site, then taken to hospitals for further testing,”
That simple statement hides a very uncomfortable process of being decontaminated.
Of course its better to be stripped naked and hosed down than to die from this poison.
That’s something that can STAY in Vegas.
Shades of Silkwood
Somebody slipped up here. I didn’t see the required “this is not related to terrorism” statement in the article. Homeland Security’s public relations department must not have been notified.
Toxic substance ricin is found in LV hotel room
...Officials were downplaying the significance of the discovery late Thursday.
Snort.
That's okay. It's on the link at my reply #10 :)
you are correct
dnc presidential campaign?
mark steyn, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Reply #11? Thanks for the reference, I'm relieved. I always feel more secure when Homeland Security makes their ritual pronouncements.
Wow, I was in LV a few weeks ago, glad I’m not now.
'"Extended stay America" suite'?
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Sorry to post another thread on top of yours.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978217/posts?page=21#21
Can we get your post in ‘Breaking News’ at least?
In response to your message in the thread that got locked
Yeah, I already had read that this morning.
There’s NO use for ricin other than killing people.
When used in “cancer research” it is a chemically altered state that is used and not directly from a castor bean.
That someone even brings that up as a possibility tells me precisely how ignorant they are, whether is is a newsie, or a cop.
I can PROMISE you there are VERY few COPS that know anything about castor beans and ricin other than the crap they’ve read in the main stream media.
Huh. It sounds like someone checked out. I hope they aren’t headed somewhere with more. Praying for our country.
I find it rather obnoxious (and dim-witted) that the FR mods locked the other link to this article that was posted in Breaking News. This story is from AP, btw, and the other is from Fox news.
I would think this story is important enough to actually be in Breaking News. (rolls eyes) Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Very strange that the MSM just brushes over this stuff all the time. What ever happened to the Anthrax case?
My son and his wife are there right now. Kind of concerning.
Only one purpose to extract ricin from
the Castor Bean and that is to kill someone. This stuff is very potent and requires ingestion or injection of less than a mg to kill an adult. Just another busted terrorist (aka mass murderers of innocent people, egs jack the ripper, john gacy, OBL or jeff Dahmer) plot most of the media will ignore to avoid crediting the Bush adminstration for protecting the country.
I just googled ‘ricin medical uses’and found this on the CDC Site:
Ricin has some potential medical uses, such as bone marrow transplants and cancer treatment (to kill cancer cells).
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin#Potential_medicinal_use
Here is another link to the story:
http://www.keyetv.com/news/world/story.aspx?content_id=ce2557a3-0f80-4cc0-a70d-7c97f467e261
Very scary stuff:
“According to the CDC, as little as 500 micrograms, or the size of the head of a pin can kill a human. It can take between six and eight hours for someone exposed to the chemical to show signs of contamination.”
Hmmmm. The condo we stay in is on Harmon. Too close for comfort.
Busted, my a$$. Who knows where this person went and if they have more of the ricin? Imho, HS better get their best and brightest on this case ASAP.
Somehow missed your second sentence - I just told you something you already know - duh me ;-)
Hopefully it was contained to that one motel.
Will be praying for their safety.
grr - 4th sentence I mean - I’m leaving to go get coffee.
What concerns me is that LE are talking about medical use. I doubt they just knew that. I’m in the medical field and didn’t. I knew about how dangerous a bio-terrorism weapon it could be though through manditory inservices. Who fed them this other possible scenerio?
We returned from Vegas after a 4 day stay last week and have been sick with a bad case of flu for the last five days.
Onboard the SW Airlines flight to Chicago we sat behind a lone muslim man who was coughing and hacking big time. He ignored the flight attendents’ request to turn off his cell phone and buckle his seat belt for takeoff.
ah, the best and brightest are on it...of course the politicians are on it too....guess who is going to help the people and who is not going to help the people.....I know that was cynical....but I have my reasons for thinking this way.
Ricin is a stable substance, affected very little by extreme conditions, such as very hot or very cold temperatures.
Ricin can be in the form of a powder, a mist, a pellet, or it can be dissolved in water or weak acid. It is water-soluble, odorless, tasteless, and stable under ambient conditions.
Depending on the route of exposure (such as injection or inhalation), as little as 500 µ of ricin could be enough to kill an adult. A greater amount would be needed to cause death if ricin were ingested.
The extent of manifestations of ricin poisoning in humans depends on the amount of ricin to which a person was exposed, route of exposure, and extent of organ involvement.
Significant exposure to ricin would result in a relatively rapid, progressive worsening of symptoms over approximately 4 to 36 hours.
Death may occur within 36 hours of exposure. If death has not occurred by 5 days from exposure, the victim usually recovers.
It would take a deliberate act to manufacture ricin to poison people.
There have been several instances of ricin procurement for use as a terrorist or criminal weapon.
As a chemical weapon, ricin may be dispersed as a mist or powder, used to poison water or to contaminate food, or injected as a liquid into a person's body.
No antidote exists for ricin.
The most important factor is to avoid exposure. If exposure cannot be avoided, then the most important factors are to get ricin off or out of the body as quickly as possible, and to provide supportive medical care. Ricin poisoning represents a potential public health emergency and should be reported to public health agencies and the regional poison control center.
I can’t open the link...what is the medical scenario? Putting my tinfoil on, but this is Leap Day...and the ‘special’ calendar days tend to make me a little nervous. That and 6 to 8 hours is the contamination window. Wow. This is scary.
The thread seems locked? Oh well.
There was no mention of the room’s occupant in the story. Do they have him/her in custody, or is someone walking around with another bag full of ricin?
Hey don’t rush them. It probably took awhile to come up with the medication theory. Give them time, I’m sure they are working as fast as they can on a harmless , Smith or Jones fellow theory.
Good grief....they should have removed the man from the plane!! Prayers up for you and your family.
I was at the SHOT (Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor) Show a few weeks ago. My husband and I came home both with really bad bronchial infections. It took a doctor’s visit and antibiotics to clear it up.
Can’t remember when I’ve been so sick, and it lasted two weeks. My doctor said the flu test was negative, it was a bronchial infection. Hubby came down with it the day before we left, and me the following day.
The SHOT Show is a trade show for manufacturers of every kind of gun, accessory, for police, military, and hunters.
It would have been a REALLY bad time for a terrorist to pull something LOL.
Three hotel employees and a fourth person who came to the room to retrieve some items were taken to the hospital as a precaution, Officer Ramon Dendy told CNN.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.....
I wonder what that person's name is...
Question, were they selling weapons at this SHOT Show or was it just for informational purposes?
But don’t you have to laugh at the “medical research” story? What researcher would conduct tests in a motel room? Or carry around research material so carelessly that they left a substantial amount of it in said motel room?
Well, it could be a name like Jones or Thomas—these days we have a lot of deluded kids volunteering for whatever they can do to help jihad.
Weird is that I had a dream about getting an envelope full of powder not one hour ago...
Timing?
True.
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