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Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
NBC NY ^ | 11/11/11 | Staff

Posted on 11/11/2011 9:56:23 AM PST by Impala64ssa

With wintry weather poised to swoop into the cramped outdoor quarters of Occupy Wall Street protesters, it may not be long before more campers catch what's being called "Zuccotti lung."

That's what demonstrators have dubbed the sickness that seems to be spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days: "It's a real thing," Willie Carey, 28, told the New York Times.

With little sleep in cold conditions, cigarettes and drinks being passed from mouth to mouth, and few opportunities to wash hands, Zuccotti Park may now just be the best place to catch respiratory viruses, norovirus (also known as the winter vomiting virus) and tuberculosis, according to one doctor.

The damp clothing and cardboard signs wet with rain are also breeding grounds for mold. Some protesters are urinating in bottles and leaving food trash discarded throughout the campground, providing further opportunities for nastiness.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: coming; disease; filth; lung; occupywallstreet; ows; park; pigs; protesters; tb; zuccotti; zuccottilung; zuccottipark; zucotticlap
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To: Impala64ssa
Or worse, let's consider the parameters here for a biological terrorist inflitration and a bunch of people huddled together in less than sanitary conditions...
61 posted on 11/11/2011 12:02:45 PM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: Impala64ssa

If they’re the real deal they’ll be “Occupy” enough to not use any for profit medical care.


62 posted on 11/11/2011 12:05:50 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Impala64ssa
Watch an army of ambulance chasing lawyers will soon be recruiting clients of OWS to file suit against the the city for unsafe conditions.
63 posted on 11/11/2011 12:16:02 PM PST by kenmcg (pROBLEM)
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To: Impala64ssa

Zuccotti, sounds like a make of Italian sports car or motorcycle.


64 posted on 11/11/2011 1:40:23 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Impala64ssa

If you think this is bad you should see their apartments.


65 posted on 11/11/2011 1:41:05 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Do they make a neutron bomb small enough to cover just a city-block?

(Just curious. Not really suggesting anything.)


66 posted on 11/11/2011 1:42:52 PM PST by samtheman
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Tuberculosis is apparently resistant to drugs now. It's time for mayors to close down all Occupy sites in the U.S. The disease is contagious.
67 posted on 11/11/2011 1:47:14 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Tuberculosis is apparently resistant to drugs now. It's time for mayors to close down all Occupy sites in the U.S. The disease is contagious.
68 posted on 11/11/2011 1:47:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: chris_bdba

You’re kidding? You never get rid of that type of TB?


69 posted on 11/11/2011 3:35:07 PM PST by Eva
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To: Mr. K

The cooks are already getting pissed about working 12+hrs a day , when they start press ganging the rest of the mob into kitchen duties watch the disease rate skyrocket due to the poor sanitation of all involved.

Dysentery & E-coli outbreaks can be deadly if not caught & treated early . You will see Darwin & evolution in action very shortly.

What most people don’t know is that before the invention of antibiotics, disease killed more folks in time of war than anything else, the belt fed machine gun came close in WWI & it certainly killed men faster but it was a second place contender.


70 posted on 11/11/2011 3:38:15 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: B.O. Plenty

So far they have U.R.I.(Upper Respiratory Infection) with more of the general mob helping in the “kitchen” look for outbreaks of dysentary & E-coli to break out.

Dysentary ,U.R.I. &e-coli OH MY 8*O .Wonder how many will get dead from the diseases before they figure out that cooking/eating were you shit & not keeping clean is not a really smart idea?


71 posted on 11/11/2011 3:46:12 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Covenantor

Isn’t cholera a mosquito/flea born disease ?


72 posted on 11/11/2011 3:48:54 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Nebr FAL owner

Cholera is a, um, poop-borne disease. No insect or animal vectors required.


73 posted on 11/11/2011 3:50:24 PM PST by denydenydeny (The moment you step into a world of facts, you step into a world of limits. --Chesterton)
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To: samtheman

Pressure washers & LYSOL cleans deodorizes & disinfects & it does it without all the collateral damage of a tactical nuke or even a little napalm strike from a A-10 or a Harrier jump jet. 8*>


74 posted on 11/11/2011 3:51:43 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: samtheman
I really did spew water on my keyboard...
75 posted on 11/11/2011 3:57:45 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Too bad these morons dont read history. In wars like the Civil War more troops were lost due to illness than bullets. Camps without proper sanitary care are breeding grounds for sickness.
This should show why in a class war or a SHTF event, these people would perish because they are stupid and didnt take the right precautions.


76 posted on 11/12/2011 1:29:39 AM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: chris_bdba

On the southern end of Roosevelt Island under the Queensboro bridge are some dilapidated buildings that were used as an insane asylum and TB sanitorium until 80-90 yrs. ago. Maybe it’s time to create “shovel ready” jobs and restore this facility and ship the occupunks to their new home.


77 posted on 11/12/2011 10:04:13 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Eva

No you don’t it is antibiotic resistant and has to be treated for life to try to keep it under control.I think they can keep it from being infectious but you always harbor the virus and it can become like that over and over.


78 posted on 11/12/2011 11:03:32 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

Yea, sue the city for allowing them to occupy.


79 posted on 11/12/2011 11:17:19 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: chris_bdba

MRSA seems to be like that too, coming back over and over. I know a kid who got MRSA during wrestling season in high school and kept getting it back. I won’t say that he got it from wrestling because the kid also is an addict. The last time, he was in the hospital for months. I think that his arm is pretty much useless, now.


80 posted on 11/12/2011 2:48:33 PM PST by Eva
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