DHS Reports on Mass Psychogenic Illness

Eddy Rochelle

The Rochelle Report

In a very recently exposed document, the Department of Homeland Security has instructed it's agents on how to form Mass Psychogenic Illness. According to the document, this is "A phenomenon in which social trauma or anxiety combines with a suspicious event to produce psychosomatic symptoms, such as nausea, difficulty breathing and paralysis". 

Events in Chechnya in December of 2005 led 13 school children to experience these symptoms. Many throughout the region had believed this illness was due to a Russian chemical weapons attack, however once the rumors flashed throughout the region, many others began to fall ill. Many returned to work and school days later, however fell ill repeated times due to Russian military activities in the area.

Other incidents of Mass Psychogenic Illness lie here in the United States. In October of 2003 a man entered a bank in California and sprayed an aerosol can into the air. The occupants of the building then fell ill with the similar symptoms to that as the Chechen case. No Biological or Chemical weapons were found during the investigation.

"With collective fears, such as those experienced day to day and those that are compounded by our media and government can present a dire health issue." Dr. Peter Daunton of the Mayo Clinic explains. "Our bodies are meant to handle personal stress, however when stress is repeatedly pressed upon us we tend to physiologically buckle." 

Since the issue came onto the forefront of the PsyOps community, both military and governmental, have been implementing a strategic plan in order to determine who to provide treatment for and who to turn away in the event of a Biological or Chemical attack. "I believe this leads an extraordinary chance to error on the government's part." Dr. Daunton continues. "There are many Chemicals and Biological agents that show the same characteristics at their onset as the symptoms listed".

The Department of Homeland Security and the CDC have refused to reply to an email sent noting "falsified reports" of the illness and "public security concerns". The silence of the governmental organization(s) that collaborated on this raises more than a couple of concerns.

What the document does not incorporate is a treatment plan or a pattern to follow when observing patients. In the event of an attack, thousands could go untreated due to a misconception of the illness. An infected person can show the same traits as someone with MPI, however will loose the ability to get treated on the grounds of a misdiagnosis. In the event of a biological agent attack, this could prove catastrophic.