BBC Cornwall, 1 November 2010:
A driver involved in the UK's worst mass water poisoning has told an inquest he had to guess which tank to put 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate in.
It affected the drinking water of about 20,000 homes in Camelford, Cornwall, causing rashes, diarrhoea, mouth ulcers and other health problems.
Carole Cross, 59, who lived in Camelford at the time of the poisoning in 1988, died 16 years later.
Large amounts of aluminium were found in her brain after her death in 2004.
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Doctor Speedy and ME in search of medical honesty
"Carole Cross, 59, who lived in Camelford at the time of the poisoning in 1988, died 16 years later.
ReplyDeleteLarge amounts of aluminium were found in her brain after her death in 2004."
yet Simon Wessely and Anthony David wrote, in their paper 'The Legend of Camelford':
" We suggest that the most likely explanation of the Camelford findings is that the perception of normal and benign somatic symptoms (physical or mental) by both
subjects and health professionals was heightened and subsequently attributed to an external, physical cause, such as poisoning ...
... there can be no doubting the substantial effect that
the prospect of litigation has on distress, particularly of the ill-defined sort present at Camelford...
... Unlike Cornwall, the doctors in Shetland were lucky not to have had to deal with the irresponsible
reporting which so inflamed passions in Camelford. These and other variables which turn an incident into a legend, merit serious study. Future investigations of
environmental incidents should recall that social and cultural factors are as important as medical ones."
- So those who felt ill and those who died in Camelford as a result of the aluminium in their water he feels were somatizing, as we are somatizing, as the Gulf War Veterrans are somatizing.? People can somatize themselves to death?
(Somatoform disorder is a mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that mimic physical disease or injury for which there is no identifiable physical cause.)
Psychiatrist Prof Wessely oversaw the recent £5 million PACE trials that AfME supported.
I read this in the news too, I noticed there was no mention of the weasle at all which I would like to see, especially in view of the document available on the internet called "The Legend of Camelford." If he got it so wrong there then he is wrong about everything and I mean everything as he classes everything the same as Camelford.
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