Dozens sickened with 'unknown' illness at Havasupai Falls

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Dozens sickened with 'unknown' illness at Havasupai Falls

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Ай бұрын

Hikers who traveled to a remote area of the Grand Canyon suffered severe illness, but it's unclear what it is and how they got sick. Emma Lockhart reports.

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@Starfish2145 Ай бұрын

The Arizona Department of health should be investigating this. Literally hundreds of people have gotten sick down there since May

@grantzelenick8200 Ай бұрын

It’s a natural spring? What do you expect them to do? People will still go anyway with warnings. Natural springs have parasites and cause sickness all the time

@ImAyBeast Ай бұрын

That’s asking them to actually go out and do their job! How dare you!

@MrStaybrown Ай бұрын

All it takes is one person to poop in the river upstream.

@bluelava4282 Ай бұрын

@SelfTaughtArtist1 Ай бұрын

Yup😬

@richardortega49 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😢😢

@alS900 Ай бұрын

Got caught up shits creek

@user-ye6dk2fw6t Ай бұрын

Watching this while I’m violently sick from food poisoning, going through hell rn

@Skylersteel Ай бұрын

Never had food poisoning myself. I wish you speedy recovery

@TingTong2568 Ай бұрын

@@Skylersteel you are one lucky chap

@bluelava4282 Ай бұрын

Here 🧻

@UnboxCraftyMagic Ай бұрын

Activated charcoal and milk thistle helps with food poison 😎

@glennnelson502 Ай бұрын

I have visited havasupai campground over many years and have seen several unsanitary practices and conditions which tourists are not aware of. On one visit I saw disposable diapers bobbing around in the river above the falls. On another more recent visit I witnessed the helicopter, which had just flown garbage out of the canyon, washing its net by dipping it into the river.

@UneducatedGeologist Ай бұрын

Good Grief

@Starfish2145 Ай бұрын

People have been getting sick down there since mid May

@scottleggejr Ай бұрын

Nature is healing 😂 all these soft idiots need heli rescue people with tummy problems 😭

@Max-qk3xi Ай бұрын

Have they not tested the waters yet ?

@jamesjenkins3384 Ай бұрын

Hate to get the bill for the helicopter ride. Indian tribes in AZ are known to carry Shigella as a natural bowel flora with no symptoms.

@carlynjones7634 Ай бұрын

Dengue mosquito has been altered my husband had same symptoms along with a few others here in Quartszite Arizona

@christinearmington Ай бұрын

You hiked with 104 F? 40C? Amazing. 😳

@twp3029 Ай бұрын

Sounds extreme, but that's a dry heat. 104 with humidity would be unbearable.

@brandon3504 Ай бұрын

@@twp3029 its not always a dry heat? yesterday was 117 degrees with 40% humidity

@kevinnguyen951 Ай бұрын

Most people try to start the hike before sun rise to avoid the heat

@salpine Ай бұрын

@@brandon350440% is pretty dry.

@cleasha_ Ай бұрын

Hmmm a recent flight had the same symptoms a few week ago, majority of all passengers suddenly became ill.

@fooltosign Ай бұрын

Mother Earth will survive humans; if humans continue to disrespect her, we will not survive.

@bluelava4282 Ай бұрын

Common sense

@Riza20462 Ай бұрын

Yup like those pride parades

@bluelava4282 Ай бұрын

@@Riza20462 STD Parades

@myopinionwhileIcanstillhaveone Ай бұрын

It's also at the Grand Canyon Village.

@user-ro3vh9cv5m Ай бұрын

Havasu falls had nothing to do with your sickness,,,

@ddsherds50 Ай бұрын

How do you know

@Chickenfinga123 Ай бұрын

@@ddsherds50 natives aren't the issue, it's due to out-of-town people

@jimcarson2977 Ай бұрын

@@ddsherds50 because he;s from the tribe ... they defend that shi..hole like no tomorrow 😆

@AVISIONMUSICTV 22 күн бұрын

@@ddsherds50 Do you really want to know?...

@2-old-Forthischet Ай бұрын

Ever wonder what's upstream of where you are?

@SleepyPuppyCrypto Ай бұрын

Sweet Jesus imagine getting sick on that hike. Diarrhea and vomit every 5 steps. No thank you!

@larsonfamilyhouse Ай бұрын

I take immodium with me everywhere I go lol

@SleepyPuppyCrypto Ай бұрын

@@larsonfamilyhouse good call! Never know!

@MonMon-qi5gw Ай бұрын

Please don't use Jesus Name as an expletive. Please be respectful to All Religions. People don't use the name of who other religions worship, Islam or Buddhists, etc. All Religions ask respect for the names of their gods. Christians have 2nd Commandment, don't use God's Name in vain, which includes not using Jesus Name carelessly or irreverently. Please treat All Religions with equal respect.

@SleepyPuppyCrypto Ай бұрын

@@MonMon-qi5gw Thank you for your feedback. I’ll make sure to add ‘sweet baby Jesus’ to the list of things I should avoid saying now. It’s always enlightening to learn about the many ways we can inadvertently offend people. Have a blessed day!

@jimcarson2977 Ай бұрын

@@SleepyPuppyCrypto Jesus isn't baby though ... Maybe Santa baby But Not Jesus 😆

@Themilkmanskid. Ай бұрын

Dead deer or cow or something in the water upstream?

@saraxdouglas8577 Ай бұрын

Sounds like norovirus....

@fueymanchoo1291 Ай бұрын

It was the salmon mousse.

@billtomson5791 Ай бұрын

Monty Python! 😊

@aceyorba Ай бұрын

The bathrooms down in the canyon at the campgrounds are Nasty. It's all about making as much money as Possible. They don't care about anything else.

@jimcarson2977 Ай бұрын

they are also racist to outsiders and tourists

@ST-rj8iu Ай бұрын

I have had the norovirus, and it is shocking how quickly it comes on. It is a vomiting marathon that can make you feel like you are about to pass out immediately. It definitely feels like a "violent illness". I cannot imagine walking in that heat with those symptoms.

@SideB1984 Ай бұрын

🙄 “Unknown” illness Norovirus

@scottleggejr Ай бұрын

Call fauci and the boys 😂

@SideB1984 Ай бұрын

@@scottleggejr oh they’re already busy making new vaxes while Fauci enjoys multimillionaire retirement.

@Sacred_Fire Ай бұрын

🤣 @@scottleggejr

@bobrojapistole4426 Ай бұрын

Norovirus is in fecal and vomit matter of an infected person. And it gets amazingly airborne in the driest places. Especially with lots of people traveling the same trail. The type of conditions where every step there is a silica dust cloud lingering is same condition a sick person leaves their waste to become airborne as it dries out and gets stepped in.

@judywyatt4790 Ай бұрын

No drinking or ingesting water from that river.

@missp4870 Ай бұрын

You all already know they put $$$$ above life.

@barnarus2547 Ай бұрын

Good reporting, Unfortunately, your editor threw clips together of whatever to try to make it interesting. No map, no reference given. Most could not find the place on a blank map. Too bad you had no one in the studio who knew the area.

@bobbydarker1959 Ай бұрын

Yessss I agree. Reporting these days is horrible!

@sandyjuntunen4088 Ай бұрын

Gets old not having real journalism anymore doesn't it? True news is a thing of the past.

@scottleggejr Ай бұрын

You're angry because they didn't give directions on how to get to where these sick people are? 😂 It's here: 36.2551476, -112.6979523

@grantzelenick8200 Ай бұрын

It’s not uncommon for people to get sick from natural spring water

@KaliMaaaaa Ай бұрын

Stop using/abusing animals. If you cannot carry you own useless junk in do not go.

@alS900 Ай бұрын

There ment to be used to help

@Funnyandsunnydays Ай бұрын

This comment is funny. They are called pack mules.😂😂😂😂😂 they pack your stuff for you. It's not hurting them. Quit being weird.

@alS900 Ай бұрын

@@Funnyandsunnydays facts these ppl are weird

@frisc0strangler207 Ай бұрын

You suck

@kaydod3190 Ай бұрын

womp womp

@user-rz1tl5ye1h Ай бұрын

Please don’t gooo!!!!!!!! As I look into open availability 😂😂😂

@Mandy-ij3ss Ай бұрын

Want to buy my husband and I’s spot? I am pregnant and I think it’s too dangerous for me to go now.

@KarenPatrol123 Ай бұрын

@@Mandy-ij3ss Lmao you wasn’t going to make it even it was no sickness.

@veronicamz123 Ай бұрын

@@KarenPatrol123you’re not even making it in life if you’re making those comments towards strangers 😂

@KarenPatrol123 Ай бұрын

@@veronicamz123 Freedom of speech is completely legal hun. ❤️

@veronicamz123 Ай бұрын

No wayyyyy, I live under rock and had no idea Ms. Rudeness 😂

@ejbeckgt Ай бұрын

Someone pooped in the pool. 😮

@b_uppy Ай бұрын

Did they drink the water from the falls itself? In the Yuma area there are snails that are causing problems...

@ALo-yv2pj Ай бұрын

Whats happening in Yuma with the snails

@b_uppy Ай бұрын

@@ALo-yv2pj There is a introduced snail found in the river there recently that was making dogs very ill...

@jacastillo796 Ай бұрын

I was not aware of this going on in Yuma ? I live in Yuma AZ ?!! I’m very concerned now 🫤

@b_uppy Ай бұрын

@@jacastillo796 I saw a news report a few months ago. Forget which tv station and which river, but it's of concern if your pets (or you) swim in it.

@Funnyandsunnydays Ай бұрын

I also saw this report.

@ICallItAsItIs Ай бұрын

diarrhea cha cha cha...diarrhea cha cha cha

@checkoutmyyoutubepage Ай бұрын

That’s a funny one 😂

@Sacred_Fire Ай бұрын

Diarrhea uh uh Diarrhea uh uh Some think it's funny, but it's really kinda runny Diarrhea uh uh

@TheSare423 Ай бұрын

When you're walking down the hall, and ya hear something fall; diarrhea, poop poop, diarrhea When you're climbing up a ladder, and ya hear something splatter; diarrhea, poop poop, diarrhea 🤭😂

@Potato-mu7nu Ай бұрын

Drivin in a Chevy Feel somethin heavy Diarrhea Diah Diarrhea

@stevenvitali7404 Ай бұрын

Comes out your bum like a bullet from a gun

@benbitter5428 Ай бұрын

Pray for the sick.

@cesarcastro2809 Ай бұрын

I got hit with a weird bug last week. Fever, body aches, for no apparent reason.

@amyeastman8764 Ай бұрын

Me too!

@taiologyterry4613 Ай бұрын

Right that’s seizure temps OMG

@franklinblunt69 Ай бұрын

At this place? Likely heat exhaustion, prominent warning about dehydration risk in that area. While GC among most captivating, precious, & resplendent features on Earth, yet rugged, remote, risky & hazardous areas that many people don't respect or prepare, so doubt GC inherent source of infectious disease when was once pristine but since contaminated as people will introduce those issues among other risks & hazards. So unsure about ethics & competence of those involved or report this incident, but extreme dehydration is serious risk that encompass those symptoms & could easily proceed heat exhaustion & stroke ... beside those concerns, while unsure about their respective hygiene & sanitation practices, as food safety along with waste treatment also issues introduced with people which will contaminate water beside deteriorate & toxify environment. By now, GC likely become very tainted as irresponsible people further encroach as else intrude, violate, & obfuscate. Beware, prepare, & stay safe

@ursula1231 Ай бұрын

That’s scary 😮

@Reeldeal818 Ай бұрын

Then dont live & lock yourself in your house!

@TrinhNguyen-nc7hj Ай бұрын

My hypothesis is someone had a violent under water diarrhea explosion.

@alicyclicda3566 Ай бұрын

yikes

@johnvalenstone7057 Ай бұрын

Boil the water and bring water filters....pretty basic stuff for real hikers...that site is crowded so alot people coming from out of the state dont know this

@larsonfamilyhouse Ай бұрын

Just bring water with you

@Funnyandsunnydays Ай бұрын

Who is drinking the water???

@klakkinkittykat Ай бұрын

Probably skinwalkers Yii Yah!

@donnykhan9102 Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@leonelmartinez4135 Ай бұрын

I've been there twice no issues. Make sure your hydrated

@stevenbrewer8788 28 күн бұрын

dude, harsh...

@aliabdelaziz905 Ай бұрын

It’s Legionella bacteria

@fishingcatchandcookkayaki9837 Ай бұрын

It's in the air for sure

@narukouzumaki9508 Ай бұрын

Could it be sulfuric acid? It could be the hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide emitting a poisonous gas?

@nameuser4406 Ай бұрын

Could it be all the chemicals they spray in the air and now its in our water system

@23pinkpear Ай бұрын

close it immediately before people die

@ginaauten1110 Ай бұрын

Curse

@StopWars420 Ай бұрын

Stop hiking in the heat. There its solved

@Dee-ye2dk Ай бұрын

Hiking in the heat wasn’t the issue. They consumed something. We’re missing something.

@StopWars420 Ай бұрын

@Dee-ye2dk no they didn't. They didnt all eat or drink at the same things. Dozens of people getting sick means it's the heat. Its the only common variable unless the water was contaminated.

@Dee-ye2dk Ай бұрын

@@StopWars420 so the heat caused people to poop themselves and vomit. Sounds like they’re not built for it………………..people in the Middle East and Africa don’t have that issue. Much hotter there. She said a virus…..you don’t contract a virus from the sun.

@CognitiveDiscussion Ай бұрын

@@StopWars420more than likely they consumed a bad water source. Which is what the hikers aren’t telling us. You don’t contract a virus or those symptoms from the heat. Overheating doesn’t align with GI issues. You wouldn’t even be able to walk or see straight if the body overheats

@__ZANE__ Ай бұрын

@@StopWars420 some tard pooped upstream, they were up shit creek

@matthayes8210 26 күн бұрын

When I was there, I just drank out of the river But all the people were where were with were like little girls had to go find water out of clean pipes

@JEFFKRYPTO Ай бұрын

Stop pooping in the water🤣🤣🤣🤣

@patriot4life262 Ай бұрын

I did a river trip down that river, they require all ppeps to piss in the water, and to poo in wag bags….there is nowhere to go…

@WorldOfWonder66 Ай бұрын

I really hope they keep investigating this and get to the bottom of it. Obviously something isn't right

@Apeface81 Ай бұрын

Sounds like extreme dehydration

@elissaann-ij3tb Ай бұрын

Yellowstone is super close: the metals from a calderas or waste run of from Vegas, is my guess flr illness.

@milissavallez4022 Ай бұрын

Not always the water. Could be coming from the dirt.

@aurorastarfire433 Ай бұрын

People are dropping like flies from the heat

@noreenpurple8617 Ай бұрын

Testing the water in two weeks? Really? And the CDC is also involved?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@Rightround0846 Ай бұрын

montezuma's revenge

@FkDJT-ut1hm Ай бұрын

They plan to test again in 2 weeks? There should be someone from the CDC right there right now. Dude. Wtf?

@danielcutillo5683 Ай бұрын

Low rainfall could mean the groundwater has been affected by giardia !

@Mandy-ij3ss Ай бұрын

They should close it

@johnbarroll1120 Ай бұрын

FDR contracted polio swimming in cantaminated park water. WARNING: Always be wary of fresh water oases which attract large numbers of tourists from throughlut the world.

@michaelrogers3947 Ай бұрын

To many people doing their business in the water I would think?

@orion2250 Ай бұрын

Let me guess Someone shit in the water and everyone got the explosive poo's and gastroenteritis

@arthurvaldepena4514 Ай бұрын

Maybe it sacred by native American

@richlopez5896 Ай бұрын

The Havasupai Falls reservation totally abuses their pack mules and this could be karma

@Ranch321 Ай бұрын

If a bear poos in a river and no ones around to see it, does it make a hospital bill?

@grumpyoldman64 Ай бұрын

It's the poo in the water virus....

@jard1234567 Ай бұрын

Not to point fingers but I know some of the residents don’t like the hikers but most hikers don’t clean up after themselves and it is so sad seeing so many people there who do not follow the rule of packing there trash or some gear out. Entitled brats who think they can just do whatever they want.

@truckingwithtobee Ай бұрын

It was probably food that they ate. It was 105°. If you don’t keep your food cool don’t cook it thoroughly. You’re going to get sick common sense.

@Funnyandsunnydays Ай бұрын

Dried foods would be the only option for me. I am a food snob. I have so many rules about what is edible or not. I don't eat anything that looks sketchy. I would rather starve than get sick.

@movingforwardfco1587 Ай бұрын

We don't know but we all flew home. We learned absolutely nothing fromthe pandemic right! Large number people gey sock no problem. No problem fly home .

@D-Harb Ай бұрын

They need to check for Valley Fever. It's a fungus

@patriot4life262 Ай бұрын

I DID A SEVEN DAY RIVER TRIP DOWN THE GRAND CANYON…. EVERYONE IS REQUIRED TO PISS IN THE RIVER, AND POO IN WAG BAGS….I AM SURE MORE HUMAN WASTE IN THE GRAND CANYON THAN YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW… THERE IS NO WHERE ELSE TO GO….

@Funnyandsunnydays Ай бұрын

Why do they have to pee in the river? I am curious.

@lisaeveretts8082 Ай бұрын

Sounds like diphtheria

@Sacred_Fire Ай бұрын

Diphtheria doesn't have those symptoms.

@Sam123QU29 Ай бұрын

Mad max day's are coming

@20PINKluvr Ай бұрын

Someone shit upstream..

@staceydelbucchia2576 Ай бұрын

God bless you...wow so sorry...so many toxins in the water today...chemtrails dropping y other toxins. I would say to be careful in all bodies of water...i dont go near anything now we are in 2024...be safe...detox...❤🙏🏼

@jrortega5062 Ай бұрын

Dont let em leave we see. This happen before with the pandemic

@356z Ай бұрын

Probably got sick from them price gouging. It used to be 100 to camp. Now it's almost 500. That's how you push people into sneaking in.

@aurorastarfire433 Ай бұрын

Earth Ganna catch fire there jt telling anyone the truth

@fredamariebrown4727 Ай бұрын

The CDC should be involved!

@hellhammered Ай бұрын

could it be brain eating amoeba?

@Starfish2145 Ай бұрын

The Tribe has not done anything to warn people who are getting ready to go down there.

@SheSweetLikSugarNSavage Ай бұрын

I'm curious...🤣😂🤣...have you ever heard of self accountability at all?

@kristena.1010 Ай бұрын

They don’t need to warn anyone it’s not their issue the people are the issue

@dessertlocust Ай бұрын

didn’t we give them infected blankets like 100 years ago

@StopWars420 Ай бұрын

Not thier problem

@baje654 Ай бұрын

@@dessertlocust great point

@kimwilliamson3615 Ай бұрын

How many of the sick people have destroyed immune systems from the covid injection?

@shondrawhite9317 Ай бұрын

🐇 🕳️ dweller, how's the weather down there.

@Funnyandsunnydays Ай бұрын

What???? Stop with the conspiracies.

@stevenfrancis2777 Ай бұрын

lol them spirits don't want them there

@user-cb9je6oj7u Ай бұрын

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. (2 Corinthians 7:10) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:7) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

@Roastar2 Ай бұрын

I am almost sure it’s coming from the volcanic gases from the volcano that straddles the Grand Canyon

@Funnyandsunnydays Ай бұрын

Why do you think that? I am curious.

@anthonymartinez4307 Ай бұрын

Mosquitoes 🦟

@LoneWolf-qv8lx Ай бұрын

Illegal dumping

@popeyesailorman911 Ай бұрын

Homeless People doing dirty Upstream

@howdyfolks5134 Ай бұрын

Aliens.

@troubledthoughts3936 Ай бұрын

Violently sick. It's spinal...

@Thesandman805 Ай бұрын

Could be the Chinese who come to visit. They probably put some stuff in the water. 😂 Jk but seriously they need to get out of the way when I’m hiking down a canyon. Always taking pictures and don’t care about their surroundings.