Dead cop
11th April 2013
A 49-year-old policeman died from a mysterious flu. Mayor Eckard Reese in shaft Audorf in Rendsburg-Eckernförde is now besieged with questions. "It is no use to stoke rumors," he says.
Schacht-Audorf. When Mayor Eckard Reese in shaft Audorf (Rendsburg-Eckernförde) on Wednesday was a lot of running. After the message had made the rounds that on Tuesday a 49-year-old police officer died of a mysterious flu and a colleague will be treated seriously ill in the ICU of the University Hospital Eppendorf needs, representatives of TV channels, radio stations and newspapers from all over northern Germany traveled to the channel community to learn more.
"I can only confirm that a police officer has died and I have heard of the illness of a colleague," said Reese. Of panic he had felt in the community nothing: "It is no use to foment unrest and spread rumors and whether the death of a young teacher, five weeks ago in connection with the current cases is, to identify professionals.."
The rumor mill
Despite all the efforts of the participating specialists it was not been possible to identify a pathogen Schmedtje said Martin, the Speaker of Rendsburg-Eckernförde.He acknowledged, however, that the patients were treated with antibiotics, "That could at least theoretically be one reason that nothing was found." However, it striking that the number of reported flu cases in Schleswig-Holstein is increased compared to the prior year.
In shaft Audorf the rumors long before the publication of serious diseases. "We've done it for some time concerned about it, how to turn a simple flu so life-threatening diseases," said a woman who declined to give her name. Another Audorfer had learned from the cases only from the newspapers. "This is very disturbing," he said."Rumors and uncertainty will probably fall silent only when it is determined officially, what causes are responsible." http://www.shz.de/nachrichten/top-thema/artikel/verunsicherung-und-medienrummel-in-schacht-audorf.html
