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In Florida: Miami area -

May 11
Suspected human rabies exposures surge in PBC
Keep an eye out for angry raccoons, hostile dogs and dizzy bats. These are the culprits largely behind a multiplying number of suspected rabies exposures among people in Palm Beach County.

The number of people vaccinated in the county for possible rabies so far this year has more than doubled from the same time a year ago, state records show.

Continued at Sun-Sentinel.

May 15
Florida Raccoon Tested Positive for Rabies
MARIANNA -- A raccoon picked by Health Department staff has tested positive for rabies according to lab results recently received from the Department of Health Pensacola Branch Lab. The raccoon fought with and was killed by two dogs on Brinson Rd., East of Bascom. The dogs have been placed in quarantine to prevent possible spread of the disease.

Continued at WTVY.

Hazmat teams blow up mysterious smoking drum in Hollywood
After a mysterious smoking barrel closed a stretch of A1A in Hollywood into the night Monday, authorities blew the 55-gallon drum to bits. They still don't know where it came from before it washed ashore over the weekend.

Hazmat teams do know this: Inside the dangerous drum percolated a cocktail of chemicals "from the sodium perchlorate family — extremely flammable," Hollywood Fire Rescue division chief Mark Steele said Tuesday.

Continued at PalmBeachPost.

May 16
McArthur High students 'decontaminated' at Hollywood hospital
At least 12 students and two teachers at McArthur High School in Hollywood were treated and released from the hospital Wednesday after breaking out with rashes from exposure to a mystery substance inside a classroom, authorities said.

Continued at MiamiHerald.

May 3 (not reported until May 17)
Stolen medical equipment may carry deadly brain disease
ORLANDO -- More than $500,000 worth of medical equipment stolen from Florida Hospital last week may carry a dangerous disease.

Police issued a special warning Friday after the equipment was taken from the Center for Diagnostic Pathology at the hospital's main campus in Orlando.

Continued at CFNews13.

May 17
Polk Co. confirms 6th positive rabies case after 2 dogs found with dead raccoon
FORT MEADE, Fla. — Polk County has confirmed its sixth positive rabies case this year.

A Fort Meade resident found his two dogs with a dead raccoon. The raccoon was tested for rabies, and it was confirmed positive for rabies by the state laboratory on Wednesday.

The announcement was made by the Sheriff's Office Animal Control Section.

Continued at TheRepublic.

Rabies alert issued in Suwannee County
Live Oak — Suwannee County Health Department Administrator Pamela M. Blackmon, RN, BSN, MPH, has issued a rabies alert for a specific area within Suwannee County, Florida. All citizens, especially the ones within the area northwest of the intersection of CR 349 and CR 252, are asked to maintain a heightened awareness that rabies is active in this county. The alert is in response to a positive laboratory result from a skunk. The rabies alert is in effect beginning May 17, 2012.

Residents in the area described above are advised to:

Continued at SuwanneeDemocrat.

May 19
No confirmation on chemical at Fort Lauderdale International Airport
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County authorities continue to investigate the unknown chemical that closed a terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Sheriff's Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles told The Associated Press Saturday that the source has not yet been confirmed, calling it an ongoing investigation. Airport spokesman Greg Meyer said earlier that it appeared to have been an aerosol can that exploded in someone's luggage.

Continued at WPTV.

May 24
Second Broward school reports mystery rash
LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. -- Broward County school officials say they don't know what caused students at two schools to break out in a red, itches rash.

Lauderdale Lakes Middle School was locked down on Wednesdsay morning while a hazmat squad from the Broward Sheriff's Office investigated.

Continued at TheMiamiHerald.

Lake in Palm Bay permanently closed to swimmers
The lake at Veteran's Memorial Park in Palm Bay has been permanently closed to swimming because of risk of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.

Continued at FloridaToday.

May 26
Naked man killed by Police near MacArthur Causeway was 'eating' face off victim
It was a scene as creepy as a Hannibal Lecter movie.

One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked, and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp Saturday, police said.

The horror began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building.

Continued at MiamiHerald.

Florida Doctor Spits Blood at Highway Patrolmen After DUI Arrest
A Florida anesthesiologist is facing felony battery charges after he allegedly banged his head repeatedly against the inside of a patrol car until he bled and and then spat blood into a sergeant's face when he was pulled over on suspicion of drunken driving, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Continued at ABCNews.

May 27
Boynton Beach roads shut down after tanker rollover
BOYNTON BEACH , FL (WFLX) - All directions of traffic have been shut down due to an "active leak" because the tanker is currently on its side and is leaking fuel.

Update, FRI 4 PM: A tanker truck continues to leak gas on a street in Boynton Beach posing a dangerous situation.

The intersection of Jog Road and Boynton Beach Boulevard remains shut down due to the spill and drivers are now being asked to stay clear of the area.

Right now several Hazmat teams from all over the county are working to spray foam onto the gas.

Continued at WFLX.

May 30
Broward County lifts boil-water order
County officials lifted North Broward's boil-water alert on Monday, meaning people in parts of four north county cities no longer have to boil their water because of fecal contamination concerns.

"Consecutive day bacteriological samples have tested ABSENT for total coliform," according to a news release issued by Broward County on Monday. "These results confirm the safety of the potable water for conumption for all Water Wastewater customers in Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point and the city of Coconut Creek and their customers.

"A Code Red Notification will be issued to all affected residences," the release also said.

Continued at SunSentinel.

And that's just within a 50 mile radius of Miami. There was more going on, for example,

Which oddly dovetails into,

In Georgia: Atlanta (CDC) area -

May 3 (not reported until May 16)
Mad-cow Testing Equipment Nabbed by Thieves
Medical equipment used to detect a brain disease similar to mad cow has been stolen from Florida Hospital's main campus in Orlando, Fla., and the equipment may pose a public health risk.

Hospital surveillance cameras captured footage of a white pickup with dark panels on the truck bed taking a medical scanner and lab machines from the hospital's Center for Diagnostic Pathology on Orange Avenue, according to the Orlando Police Department. The agency is investigating the May 3 theft.

Continued at HispanicBusiness.

Zombies? Strange happenings in Florida and Georgia
There's a lot of Creutz feldt-Jakob disease (prions) connection in the month of May between Georgia and Taiwan, and a whole lot of odd in just a single month in Florida. News links listed at PasteBin.com.

Yeah, yeah, but what does it all mean?

I have plenty of imagination, but no reasonable idea. Still, it appears to be one very freaky weird month for Florida and the CDC.

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