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    Posted: December 05 2016 at 5:25pm
Here is a link (hoping it works) to an article on severe thunderstorm asthma causing 5 deaths in Kuwait. About a week ago there where 8500 hospitalized and 8 dead from same cause in Australia... I'd never heard of this before - anyone on here familiar with this?

[URL=http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/mysterious-thunderstorm-asthma-now-strikes-kuwait-hospitalizing-nearly-a-thousand_12052016[/URL]


Here is a link on the Australia incident

[URL=[URL]]http://www.thedailysheeple.com/bio-warfare-like-150-bombs-going-off-6-people-dead-and-8500-hospitalized-in-australia-due-to-rare-thunderstorm-asthma_112016[/URL]

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sorry gang - you'll have to cut paste links
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Cut and paste from BBC about the Australia situation:

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

The number of people dying in the Australian city of Melbourne from a rare phenomenon called thunderstorm asthma has risen to eight....

Heavy rains and winds last Monday triggered thousands of pollen allergy asthma attacks in the state of Victoria.....

Thunderstorm asthma occurs in the spring when rye grass pollen gets wet, breaks into smaller pieces and enters people's lungs, causing them breathing problems.

More than 8,000 people were treated in hospital.

About one in 10 people has asthma in Australia, with about 80% of those sufferers experiencing allergies, particularly to rye pollen....

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