Pneumonia Bug That Struck Hillary Clinton also Seriously Sickened Several Members of Her Staff

[Cryptoad]

Source: People Mag

The illness that sickened Hillary Clinton with pneumonia and caused her to have to be escorted away from September 11 ceremonies in New York on Sunday also struck down several members of her campaign team at Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn, PEOPLE has learned.

"Everyone's been sick," a campaign source tells PEOPLE.

At the end of August, two weeks before Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia, a debilitating bug was making the rounds among staff at her headquarters and campaign aides who travel with Clinton, a source tells PEOPLE.

At least half a dozen senior staff were felled, including campaign manager Robby Mook. Two top advisers even needed emergency medical treatment, the source says. One top adviser diagnosed at a Brooklyn urgent-care center with a respiratory infection was being treated with antibiotics in the days before Clinton's diagnosis. Another top adviser was taken by ambulance to the ER by ambulance after collapsing from what turned out to be severe dehydration, the source said.

Read more: http://www.people.com/article/hillary-clinton-staff-sick-pneumonia?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag

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This makes me wonder if Putin has not provided Trump campaign some type of Biological agents to use against the Hillary campaign...... I put nothang pass these GOP ass holes!

[KamaAina]

1. Is brooklynite OK?

Yes, the mighty DU has a mole inside Clinton HQ.

[Beacool]

2. Well, that explains a lot.

It's common for coworkers to pick-up each other's bugs. I wish Hillary a full and speedy recovery.

[kstewart33]

18. Who's to say that Hillary was the source of the problem?

Any evidence that she spread the illness to her staff?

[awoke_in_2003]

25. Where is the evidence

that Bea said HRC was the source?

[Beacool]

27. Where did I say that she was the source?

Try a bit of reading comprehension. What I said is that if other people around her were sick, it's not uncommon for her to have become ill too.

[ColemanMaskell]

30. The other cases PRECEDED hers, so she cannot be the source

It was plainly stated that the illness had been going around before she got sick. Hence she could not have started it.

[Historic NY]

3. Meanwhile NBC is beside themselves

with what if and wherefores it almost like they hoping for a grave ending.

[yallerdawg]

4. Now "We're ALL sick and never told anyone?"

F**king brilliant.

Keep digging, Team Hillary.

[MynameisBlarney]

10. ?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. !!!!

[yallerdawg]

13. Regret, mistake, sorry?

Presidential campaigns are always grueling – interminable work days, hours spent on and off of planes, the stress of the high stakes – for the candidate and staff and traveling press corps alike.

That's why one veteran of the campaign trail, Nicolle Wallace, former communications adviser to President George W. Bush, says Sunday's belated disclosure of her pneumonia diagnosis – at a time when polls show that Clinton's trustworthiness is seriously questioned by a substantial chunk of voters – is more a political issue than a real medical one.

This shows, Wallace said on NBC's Today, that "the Clintons can't come clean about anything, including cold and flu season."

[MynameisBlarney]

14. This is a big nothing burger

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This is the bloody media trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

So they got sick. So what?

Trump and his tight-knit circle of sycophants and astoundingly ignorant family are actual criminals.

[yallerdawg]

16. When the Trump campaign says...

"Hillary is hiding the truth, and she is not well" - and then her campaign "hides the truth and she is not well" - that is not a 'big nothing burger.'

That is a big juicy cut of red meat!

No reason for a presidential candidate not to disclose a diagnosis of pneumonia. It is not nothing.

[Demit]

19. She was diagnosed on Friday, right?

Walk me through when she was supposed to announce it. On Friday? Then she gets grief that it's a Friday news dump. On Saturday? Still a weekend news dump, or she gets accused of 1) trying to draw attention away from her supposedly controversial statement "Basket of Deplorables" or 2) trying to upstage the 9/11 memorial or 3) use it as cover for her health announcement.

She couldn't win. They'd tear into her one way or another. The fact that her supporters are picking up the arguments of the opposition and the antagonistic media is such a sad statement I can't believe it.


Plus she really wanted to go to the memorial because she did represent New York as a senator. Also because of her close involvement with the health of the first responders in the aftermath of 9/11. She thought she could tough it out. She'd been walking around with this for awhile & the doctor had given her antibiotics. She's a human being, for chrissakes. Cut her some slack.

[MynameisBlarney]

21. Are you actually serious with this?

If so...

You are part of the problem.

[LanternWaste]

33. Your consistent concern seems both overwrought and emotionally melodramatic.

"That is a big juicy cut of red meat!"

Only to those who believe Solyent Green is nutritious. Your consistent concern seems both overwrought and emotionally melodramatic.

Yes... it is nothing, despite your unsupported statements otherwise.

[Warpy]

5. Not surprising

The bugs that cause ambulatory pneumonia are very contagious.

[Demit]

20. Is it possible there's something in the HVAC system at their headquarters?

As I recall, the people who come down with Legionnaire's Disease exhibit pneumonia symptoms. I was once at a weekend beach house party where we all got sick to varying degrees (I was the lucky one who came down with pneumonia). I swear it was something in the whole-house air conditioning system.

[Warpy]

26. It's unlikely. Most of the bugs are person to person

and can spread rapidly, especially since people with ambulatory pneumonia generally tend to blow it off as a cold or allergies. I know I did when I had it. My main symptom was fatigue.

[Demit]

31. My main symptom was a 104 temp and a horrible hacking cough.

I don't think the Legionnaires at the Bellevue Stratford passed it to one another. I think it was determined that they breathed it in while at the convention. It's happened on cruise ships as well, IIRC.

[Warpy]

32. We're not talking about Legionnaires disease here, we're talking about ambulatory pneumonia

and they are very different diseases. It's quite possible to have ambulatory pneumonia for weeks and not know it.

It's impossible to have Legionnaire's for a couple of days and not know it. It's a much more severe illness.

[uppityperson]

6. Meh. People working together pass stuff around.

[mahina]

7. It's up to us to keep the ball moving while she and all the team recover.

I will be phone banking at HQ starting today. I hope her surrogates and rapid response team are out there every day on offense.

While they rest I STAND WITH HER

E kala mai the caps but I feel it rising in me. She must prevail and she is only human with a body that must rest and heal.

I stand!

[Coyotl]

8. Biological warfare?

[Ligyron]

15. That was my thought

Probably should be glad they haven't used anthrax yet.

[LanternWaste]

34. Or simply a bug going around. Happens from time to time

Or simply a bug going around. Happens from time to time. Though last year, it would have been delicious fun to pretend the stomach bug at my office was biological warfare...

[Helen Borg]

36. If the tone of the competition does not clam down a bit.

I'm afraid it will be the logical conclusion.

[displacedtexan]

9. I've had the same damned thing for over a week now.

The fact that Trump is trying to get away with this is...deplorable.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

22. It has been going around...

... I do not know if it is exactly the same strain, but my uncle has been in the Kearney, Neb. hospital with pneumonia, along with complications of smoking since he went to Vietnam right out of high school. I have seen reports of minor "epidemics", from coast to coast.

[displacedtexan]

29. Mine started with a cold that settled in my eyes.

The Dr gave me prescription drops. After 8 days, the cold seemed better, but the TX heat has made me so sick that I thought I was dehydrated. The Dr called it walking pneumonia. I'm still sick, but it's mostly weakness and a bad headache.

[gwheezie]

11. If you have a job you go to work

It's stupid sometimes but the past few weeks something is going around where I work and we all got it. By the time you go to the doctor you've already spread it around

[LiberalFighter]

17. I just walked to and from an Aldi's this afternoon in 79 degree weather. About 1/8 mile each way.

Went to PetSmart before going back home. During the walk I had developed a cold sweat. I was wearing jeans and only a normal sweatshirt for cover along with a baseball hat. It took me about 30-35 minutes for the trip.

If I had been at the 9/11 event yesterday I doubt I would had lasted an hour without lots of liquids. And shade in the tree. Even worse if I was wearing a suit.

[Cryptoad]

23. how much bulletproof kevlar underwear u think she is wearing?

[LiberalFighter]

24. A lot more restricted clothing than I was.

[bigpenguin]

28. Give it a few hours...

The right will start saying those staff members were intentionally given the virus so that it would appear they caught it from her.

[forest444]

35. Please get Colloidal silver spray at Whole Foods or someplace similar.

It really helps shorten the symptoms.

All the Best to Hillary and her Brooklyn office staff!

[joshcryer]

37. With how crazy this cycle is, it would not surprise me.

But I'm not saying that I think that's what happened. It just wouldn't surprise me.

[roamer65]

38. There is a really nasty virus going around.

Put a person I know and my mom in bed for several days. They both had to get Tamiflu. I wonder if Hillary got it and it weakened her enough to develop pneumonia.