Infection Spreads at Playboy Mansion!

JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,619
edited February 2011 in A Moving Train
LA County probes Playboy Mansion illness reports

LOS ANGELES – Health officials on Saturday were investigating complaints of respiratory illnesses that a media report said affected dozens of people after a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles that was part of a larger conference.

The Department of Public Health issued a statement Saturday saying only that it was investigating a suspected respiratory infection outbreak among attendees of a conference on the west side of Los Angeles County.

The Los Angeles Times said there were reports that dozens of people were sickened after the event at the L.A. mansion, but neither the newspaper nor county health officials cited a specific number of cases.

The department sent an e-mail with a survey Friday to all who attended the Feb. 3 event, saying that they had received reports of problems including pneumonia, the newspaper said after talking to participants.

Some 700 people from 30 countries attended the Santa Monica conference on Internet businesses, called Domainfest global.

The county statement said investigators were looking into the cause, extent and potential sources of the illness, but did not believe it spread beyond the people who attended.

"Public Health has no information suggesting that this suspected outbreak extends beyond those individuals associated with this conference," the statement said.

Officials from the department would give no further details on the investigation.

Elliot J. Silver of New York, who runs Silver Internet Ventures, succumbed to the bug.

"It is scary everyone came down with the same thing at the same time," Silver told the New York Post.

David Castello, 54, said he and his brother, Mike, who co-founded Castello Cities Internet Network, Inc., were also at the fundraiser. David Castello fell prey to the infection, his brother did not.

"It knocked me off my feet for five days," said Castello, whose symptoms included a fever, cough, headaches and back spasms. "I'm over it now, but I'm still feeling fatigue, which is not a good thing."

WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT A WIDEPSREAD INFECTION ORIGINATING AT THE PLAYBOY MANSION WOULD BE OF THIS NATURE, AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE!

GOTTA LOVE THE IRONY!
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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:

    LOS ANGELES – Health officials on Saturday were investigating complaints of respiratory illnesses that a media report said affected dozens of people after a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles that was part of a larger conference.

    I sure wasn't thinking it would be a respiratory illness that's going around... :lol:
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,619
    Jeanwah wrote:
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:

    LOS ANGELES – Health officials on Saturday were investigating complaints of respiratory illnesses that a media report said affected dozens of people after a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles that was part of a larger conference.

    I sure wasn't thinking it would be a respiratory illness that's going around... :lol:

    Well, I guess if the illness involves huffing, puffing and heavy breathing, it does make sense!
  • __ Posts: 6,651
    I read that it's being linked to dirty hot tubs.
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    yea probably a form of Legionnaires'
  • Hub.Hub. Posts: 1,990
    _ wrote:
    I read that it's being linked to dirty hot tubs.

    Not very nice, calling playmates "dirty hot tubs". :mrgreen:
  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Jeanwah wrote:
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:

    LOS ANGELES – Health officials on Saturday were investigating complaints of respiratory illnesses that a media report said affected dozens of people after a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles that was part of a larger conference.

    I sure wasn't thinking it would be a respiratory illness that's going around... :lol:
    Def. not what i was first thinking when i saw the thread title ! :shock:
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