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Nearly A Thousand Hospitalized As “Thunderstorm Asthma” Hits Kuwait

Lat month more than 8500 people were hospitalized and at least eight others died after a bizarre thunderstorm left emergency services stretched beyond capacity.  A similar event has now been reported in Kuwait, with claims that thunderstorm activity triggered a mass reaction and nearly a thousand people were taken to the hospital with severe asthma. At least five people have also died. What is really going on? SHTF reports: Is a covert, deadly substance being deliberately sprayed from planes (as governments did back in the sixties, and countless times since)? Or is is just something harmful being swept up from nearby farms and factories? Whatever the explanation, the pattern is completely bizarre, especially since it has now happened in back to back cases, despite the fact that the phenomenon has been sparsely documented and extremely rare, to the point of being unheard of. The following was translated from Arabic to English via Google, so there may be errors or poor interpretations. But at this point, there isn’t much else to go on. Via Hamrin News (a Kurdish-oriented news outlet published from Germany): Kuwait – 1-12 (KUNA) – Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, Dr. Khalid Al-Sahlawi said that the [...]

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