LA Times: "Katrina Cough" Affliciting Returnees in NOLA

[stopbush]

Katrina Cough' Floats Around
# The storm's residual mold and muck may be causing respiratory illnesses in people who have returned home.

By Scott Gold and Ann M. Simmons, Times Staff Writers

NEW ORLEANS — A large number of people along the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts are developing a condition that some have dubbed "Katrina cough," believed to be linked to mold and dust circulating after Hurricane Katrina.

Health officials say they are trying to determine how widespread the problem is. There are suggestions that it is popping up regularly among people who have returned to storm-ravaged areas, particularly New Orleans.


Dr. Dennis Casey, one of the few ear, nose and throat doctors seeing patients in New Orleans, called the condition "very prevalent." And Dr. Kevin Jordan, director of medical affairs at Touro Infirmary and Memorial Medical Center in downtown New Orleans, said the hospital had seen at least a 25% increase in complaints regarding sinus headaches, congestion, runny noses and sore throats since Katrina.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cough4nov04,0,7514027.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Anderson ville ala Shrub

[merh]

2. Yep

and its a real bitch too.

x(

[tjdee]

3. That was my very first thought. I'm allergic to mold....

and I have no doubt I would be in serious trouble if I so much set foot in NO/Biloxi/etc.

I don't know what they're going to do, because cleanup is still in the very beginning stages. It'll be interesting to see how they deal with it.

[stopbush]

4. That's "BiToxi" eom

[ClintonTyree]

5. Wonderful...do I let my daughter return in January?

Son of a bitch. Just when I was starting to think things might be alright I have to read this. She's a Senior at Tulane U. and I've been hesitant to let her return. Of course she wants to go back no matter what, young people are indestructible, you know? :eyes:

I've really got to find out more about this. I'll probably end up going down there myself to investigate. She's asthmatic as it is, christ, this could kill her.

Fuck, shit, piss and corruption! I know I'm going to come off looking like the mean old father here....... damn it.

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Explain to her how Shrub has done nothing but close Our country, to us...

God Bless you and all parents in this world we live in.