Current mood:

nervous

Strange happenings
My mom works at the UPS Store in town, next to a Publix grocery store. She just called to tell me that she'd gone to the market on her break to pick up a salad for lunch. The whole produce section is cordoned off, and all the bins were being emptied by guys in hazmat suits. So, she asked a passing stocker what was going on.

He said that yesterday they'd gotten the usual shipment of oranges, leafy greens, tomatoes and whatnot from their supplier out in the Dixon, California area, and all the produce guys stocked the bins like normal. By last night, three of the produce handlers had to be taken to the ER. They were all exhibiting symptoms of necrotizing fasciitis. Well, that's what they found out, anyway. At first, the doctors thought it was meningitis, since three of them had it (and meningitis is highly contagious), but they later determined it was actually the necrotizing fasciitis.

Two of the guys died during the early hours this morning, and the third is in critical condition. The store is emptying the produce section, and has issued a general recall to the community on all produce sold at the store yesterday. Who knows how many people bought potentially contaminated produce? This could be bad....

underpope has reported an outbreak where he lives, and bonniers says bad things are going down in her area, too. What in the world is going on?