Mysterious illness hits 16 at Pennsylvania Legion convention
In Harrisburg the death toll rose to 16 and at least 50 more hospitalized after an undiagnosed flu like illness struck attendees of a three day American Legion gathering in Philadelphia. Officials weighed swine flu and viral pneumonia as possible causes as autopsies were ordered. Autopsies and lab tests were dispatched to state labs and the CDC in Atlanta for analysis.
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State Health Laboratories
Philadelphia
Federal Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Bachman
Center For Disease Control
U.S. Public Health Service
Pennsylvania
CDC
Michael Gregg
Legion Convention
Missing Dead Sought as Flood Toll Rises in Big Thompson Canyon
In Loveland Colorado authorities shifted to recovery efforts for the dead after a flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon. Sheriff Robert Watson warned the death toll could reach up to 200 amid 77 confirmed fatalities, 260 injured and 559 unaccounted for. Federal disaster status granted. evacuation flights continued with 1,000 evacuated since Sunday.
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Ford
Legionnaire deaths blamed on typhoid in Philadelphia
Hamilton Butler County Health Commissioner John Harvey said new information from Ohio Health confirms the Philadelphia American Legion convention outbreak was typhoid, not swine flu. CDC officials indicated a water or food borne source, with a final report due in a few days.
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Hamilton
Butler County
John Harvey
The
Journal
American Legion
Philadelphia
Harvey
Thomas Halpin
Ohio
Department of Health
Halpin
National Communicable Disease Center
CDC
Atlanta
Local couple rescued after Big Thompson flood ordeal
John T. Nenni and Kathleen Harmon were stranded in the Big Thompson River Canyon during a flash flood near a resort. They rode out the danger camping on higher ground and reached a passable road out of Rocky Mountain National Park with their car tent intact. The couple, married July 24, return to Hamilton where Nenni works as an Armco process engineer and Harmon teaches at Badin High School.
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Big Thompson River Canyon
John T. Nenni
Kathleen Harmon
Rocky Mountain National Park
Nenni
Rudolph Nenni
Creekview Drive
Nennis
Denver
Colo
Jack
Kathy
Colorado
California
Aurora
George
Estes Park
Long wait for news at Big Thompson Canyon vigil
Survivors and families crowd a high school evacuation center waiting for word about loved ones missing after the flood. Among the hopeful, a college-age man who proposed days before the disaster and a twin brother among the missing.
Weather and relief efforts interweave after Colorado flood
Skies clear tonight with a low near 60 and a high of 88 Wednesday, rain chances minimal. In Fort Collins evacuee centers, exhausted survivors cling to hope as Governor Lamm calls the flood a once in a century disaster and families search for missing loved ones amid evacuation chaos.
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Fort Collins
Dorothy Abbey
Colorado
Richard Lamm
Calvin Matthew
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