VEN (WASHINGTON) — VEN’s award-winning senior investigative reporter Charles Tatum confirmed Friday, that the treponema pallidum so-called virus that killed mentally-challenged, ethically-compromised, frequently amygdala-highjacked

former Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), is not a rare strain of the common swine flu virus as reported by CNN, but in fact a virulent spirochete bacterium that causes syphilis, and that Mr Cummings died of complications from the ravages of that disease, which he is believed to have contracted in a sporting house somewhere in Anacostia, where he was often seen in the company of veteran sex workers drinking Chambord and Grapico cocktails in the lounge of the once-exclusive Hotel Lorraine.

VEN is also reporting that the hospice where the congressman died has been declared a Hot Zone hazmat area, and that at least 15 hospice workers — five of whom are in critical condition — have been medivac’ed to the Virulent STD Ward of John’s Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.

“The man just exploded like a rotten pear,” one hospice worker told reporters. “It was like — Oh, Sweet Baby Jesus! — like something out of The Exorcist!”

Meanwhile, in what may be a related story, missing-in-action Congresswoman Maxine Waters was spotted Tuesday entering the Teodoro Kennedy Clinica de Alcohol y Sifilis Terciaria in downtown Tijuana with Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and a small entourage of what appeared to be DNC and CIA operatives.

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