Unexplained Deaths in a Texas Jail

[Tuckerfan]

Is it a disease or a reaction to a bad batch of illicit drugs?

A new medical team, including federal disease experts, is expected to arrive here this week to try and find the cause of the mysterious illness that has killed two inmates and hospitalized two others from the Val Verde County jail.

“We would like someone with a new set of eyes to come and take a look. We’re asking for a multi-faceted team to come, including the Centers for Disease Control,” said Dr. Sandra Guerra-Cantu, regional medical director of the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Two died in area hospitals after coming down with symptoms that included erratic behavioral changes, incontinence and dehydration.

The third is in critical condition at a Del Rio hospital and the fourth is in stable condition in a San Antonio hospital that officials would not identify.

The state already has sent two teams of investigators to review the jail. A variety of tests for medical conditions and toxic exposures have failed to identify a cause.

[Mops]

Not quite on-topic, but I do wonder what in the OP triggered the Google ads for boarding schools (4 out of 4 ads).

“erratic behavioral changes”? “incontinence”? “jail”? “illicit drugs”?

[Montgomery0]

@Tuckerfan

Is it a disease or a reaction to a bad batch of illicit drugs?

The zombie apocolypse begins!