Five Infants Die At Apartment Complex In Las Vegas
Between the dates of September 5, 2008 and October 9
, 2008 five infants, all under the age of 3 months died from similar symptoms. Each of the infants lived in a separate building of this Section 8 apartment complex. One infant died in each five of the separate buildings of the six-building complex. The case is being investigated by the parents of the deceased children with the aid of an attorney. The Clark County Coroner's is also has also looked into the case attempting to determine the cause of the children' death.
All the infants passed away within one week one week of experiencing the first symptoms.
Adults living with the infants experienced skin rash similar in appearance to poison ivy, fatigue and headaches.
It is reported that weird looking flies appeared from the air conditioning ducts.
The pesticide utilized in these buildings possibly contained Bifenthrin. A product sold by Nu-Calgon was used to clean the coils of the apartment air conditioners. The Nu-Calgon product consists of aqua ammonia, diethylene glycol monethyl ether, etheline glycol, n-butyl ether tetrasodium EDTA, caustic soda sodium metasilicate, sodium nitrate, butane and propane (volatile components are butane and propane).
Just prior to Thanksgiving 2008 all of the air conditioning duct work, water heaters and water heater water lines were replaced in these apartment buildings.
Toxic mold, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Radon have been ruled out as causes of death.
As revealed by autopsies, common symptoms and pathology experienced by the infants prior their death were as follows:
1. Severe pulmonary edema;
2. Skin rash;
3. Abdominal bruising;
4. Clouding of the eyes (conjunctivitis);
5. Mild vascular congestion and intra alveolar
edema;
6. Lungs atelectasis: and
7. Red ness on the head and neck.
There appears to be a common cause of these deaths. Can these deaths be related to the pesticide or the product used to clean the air conditioning coils? Are these deaths related to a mixing of the pesticide and the air conditioning coil cleaner. Were these deaths caused by insects? Is this a case of Legionnaires disease that has, as yet, gone undetected in the children? Were the deaths caused by airway obstruction caused by foreign bodies? Were they caused by a chemical that blocked hemoglobin from carrying oxygen to the heart and lungs, a chemical that blocked oxygen pick up in the alveoli, or a chemical that caused insufficient oxygenation of arterial blood?
by: Allen Cap
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