Thirsty? Go ahead, the water is perfectly safe. We promise.

[WilliamPitt]

West Virginia ERs Report an Influx of Patients After Water Deemed Safe
By Steven Hsieh
The Nation

January 15, 2014

Emergency rooms surrounding the site of a West Virginia chemical spill are treating scores of patients with symptoms related to exposure to chemical-tainted water, the Charleston Daily Mail reports.

The influx of patients reporting related symptoms comes the same day that West Virginia American Water lifted a “do-not-use” order for many customers living in affected areas.

“What we are seeing when we talk to our partners in hospital systems are people with skin and eye irritation, rashes, nausea, upset stomach and diarrhea,” Rahul Gupta, health officer for the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department said.

The rest: http://www.thenation.com/blog/177954/west-virginia-ers-report-influx-patients-after-water-deemed-safe

[PRETZEL]

1. This is from the local Charleston paper

it's sounding like a combination of the water company trying to jump the gun a bit in certain areas and some who may be overly sensitive

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401150044

January 15, 2014
Residents visit ERs with water-related complaints
100-plus people exposed to Elk River leak cite eye irritations, rashes and more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As Southern West Virginians begin to use their water again, some are going to emergency rooms, complaining of chemical-related symptoms.
By Lori Kersey
Advertiser
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Shane Casdorph held out as long as he could before he finally took a shower Tuesday evening.

West Virginia American Water officials told his family they could use the water at their house in Kanawha City on Monday afternoon, but the licorice smell from last week's chemical leak was even stronger after they flushed their pipes longer than recommended.

Despite its cool temperature, the water Casdorph used made his skin feel hot after a four- or five-minute shower, he said.

"My ears were burning," said Casdorph, 24. "I've got red places on my feet and back and a red rash on my back."

Casdorph said he was hesitant to use the water at all because his mother had become sick the day before after she showered in it, although he said that might be because of a stomach virus

(snip)

[WinkyDink]

4. "overly sensitive"?? Yeah, okay.

[MisterP]

9. merely psychosomatic--like at Chernobyl!

[WinkyDink]

10. And Bopal!

[jsr]

2. Skin and eye irritation, rashes, nausea, upset stomach, diarrhea? It's normal.

[B Calm]

3. Maybe if the CEO of Freedom Industries was behind bars, it might boost the confidence

of the people to drink the water. . .

[WinkyDink]

5. Or if he was forced to drink the water.

[H2O Man]

6. recommended

This will be coming to a town/city near all of us, if we do not engaged in a sustained effort to protect the living environment from being poisoned by greedy, blind cogs in the machine.

[randome]

7. "Go ahead. I dare you."

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Triana]

8. The CEO of "Freedom" industries (and his family) should have to publicly use the water first...

...bathe or wash up with it, drink it, cook with it and eat the food. HE should be the one testing it before claiming it's safe.

[mstinamotorcity2]

11. sorry wouldn't use at all.

That is a hot mess. They are still testing and cleaning the Kalamazoo River in my state after an oil spill a few years ago. there must be a way to hold these major polluters accountable. they risk the lives of millions with their carelessness. the risk to wildlife and the shorelines and riverbeds, aquatic life all are susceptible to these chemical and oil spills. not to mention the disbursement agents they use to so-called clean up their mess. Nobody knows what that shit is.