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ST. LOUIS - One of two Missouri hospital emergency rooms reopened Sunday, a day after being shut down under quarantine when eight people sickened by a dangerous chemical’s release sought treatment.
Price McCarty, an FBI spokesman in Springfield, Ill., said the chemical release at the Ro-Corp. plant caused no deaths, countering a statement earlier Sunday by an East St. Louis’ city official that two people had died.
The chemical, which authorities said was likely the highly toxic material nitroaniline, was released when a barrel was dropped at the Ro-Corp. plant.
The eight people sickened — identified by the FBI as mostly Ro-Corp. workers — remained hospitalized Sunday.
Three were in good condition at SSM DePaul Health Center in Missouri’s St. Louis County. The hospital reopened its emergency department Sunday afternoon after quarantining it the previous night, spokeswoman Jamie Newell said.
Three others were in satisfactory condition at St. Anthony’s Medical Center. The hospital expected to reopen its emergency department later Sunday.
One man remained hospitalized at St. Louis’ Barnes-Jewish Hospital on Sunday — a spokeswoman declined to divulge his condition — while another person was listed in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Saint Louis University Hospital.
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