Subject: Re: texas austin dillo dirt
SLUDGE VICTIM SUFFERS SORE THROAT, LOW GRADE FEVER, LETHARGY, RASH ERUPTION TURNING INTO SEA
OF RED PAPULES, CLUMPED PLATELETS, VASCULITIS
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/2009/12/01/1201acl_edit.html
Nolan: Visit to Austin and ACL Fest has left its mark
Crystal Nolan, Special Contributor
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
A tenacious virus is attacking my body.
Maybe it launched its invasion from one of the more than 50,000 music fans who attended Austin City Limits Music
Festival in early October. Or maybe the virus was borne on the unseasonal heavy rains, which caused treated waste
material called "Dillo Dirt" to percolate through the 40 or so acres of the freshly fertilized lawn at Zilker Park.
Though some stoned and jovial attendees resorted to rolling in the oozy substance (a flashback to Woodstock mud
scenes), I was not one of them.
After arriving home from Austin on Oct. 6, the weekend found me bedridden with a sore throat, low-grade temperature
and lethargy. I overcame the sore throat after a few days. Then a fine rash broke out on my upper extremities but
disappeared within 24 hours. The fatigue lingered for a couple more weeks.
After slowly regaining some strength, I resumed working out and walking. Imagine my horror, then, when I discovered
the repulsive, flame-red eruptions reaching as far as my upper thighs over the course of a couple days and climbing to
my forearms and elbows after a week. A sea of red papules eventually coalesced into large blotches.
I am not one who cherishes visiting physicians as a patient. For the past six years, doctors have hired me as a medical
practice consultant. It was with much consternation and reluctance that I sought out my primary care physician, who was
stymied and worried by what she observed.
Lab work was ordered and all came back normal, except for one test: I had "clumped" platelets. While waiting for an
appointment with the infectious disease specialist to whom she referred me, I began to search the internet for "clumped"
platelets.
Technology allows us all to research virtually any topic of interest, but I turned up more information than anyone should
see. The pictures of necrotic toes and other blackened body parts not only raised my blood pressure but distressed me
to the point of abandoning my quest for further medical knowledge.
The infectious disease specialist prescribed a regimen of the powerful anti-inflammatory drug prednisone, which,
though it helped calm the rash, left me frazzled, to the point of having to restrain the urge to run naked into the streets
screaming, "The clumps are coming, the clumps are coming."
He was confident the rash would be gone in one week, but the obstinate bug did not cooperate.
I am now on my third specialist, a dermatologist, who hopes the virus will simply die out over time. A biopsy confirmed
that I have a text-book case of vasculitis, which according to him, will not go "gently into that good night;" it will take time
to release its hold on me.
[comment: "Bacterial, viral or other infection - Vasculitis due to infection can occur through any of the above
mechanisms. http://dermnetnz.org/vascular/vasculitis.html "
And so it is with great humility that I gaze upon my body, witnessing the effects of this virulent attack, realizing that this
virus is also fighting for its own sense of self-importance.
The theory that man is the pinnacle of life forms is feeble when one considers that a microscopic plunderer can reduce
a giant to tears in a matter of days.
A mighty power resides in tiny organisms that have been lurking since the beginning of cellular life on our planet and
can, evidently, be resurrected by water, generating an army of marauders that harass unsuspecting music fans.
Nolan lives in Puyallup, Wash.
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Note: We have statements from other victims of the October 2009 Class A sewage sludge "biosolids" Dillo Dirt
incident in Zilker Park, Austin, Texas, detailing adverse health effects:
" including itching, burning skin rashes and lesions, gastrointestinal symptoms, eyes which are swollen and infected "
--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Helane Shields <hshields@worldpath.net> wrote:
Subject: texas austin dillo dirt
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 2:03 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-
gen/blogs/austin/health/entries/2009/10/15/dillo_dirt_rash_call_health_de.html#comments
By Helane Shields
October 18, 2009 1:55 PM | Link to this
The folks in Zilker Park who suffered rashes, skin and eye infections, are certainly not the first victims of Class A
sewage sludge “biosolids” - see reports from people around the country: www.sludgevictims.com/Class-A-sludge.
html Austin should compensate the victims for their medical bills.
Texas victims of Class B sewage sludge which EPA allows to contain up to 2 million colony forming units of fecal coliform
per gram of solids, dry weight:
www.sludgevictims.com/States/Texassludgevictims.html
Children with their underdeveloped immune systems and hand-to-mouth behavior should not be exposed to either
Class A or Class B sewage sludge biosolids in home flower and vegetable gardens and public parks and playgrounds.
Helane Shields, Alton, NH sludge researcher since 1996 www.sludgevictims.com