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Brazilian Model Dies from Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infection
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:48 PM EST
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A 20-year-old Brazilian model whose feet and hands were amputated following a drug-resistant infection has died, health officials said.
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{"commentId":4981218,"authorDomain":"wharrison55"}
This story is almost too horrific to comprehend and the incidence of this while still rare is growing. The same thing killed my friend Phil Clapp in September. What can all of us do about it? Throw out the antibacterial soaps and quit running to the damn doctor an antibiotic every time you get a runny nose.
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- 9 votes
#1 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:54 PM EST{"commentId":4982586,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
horrible story for sure.
Ever wonder why animals can eat bad food and not get as sick like we do?
They arent as clean as us and hence develop stronger immune systems.
we will probably have to get better at vaccines.
Do to our lifestyle the race is knowledge versus evolution.
For a short time knowledge has held the lead, but them dang bugs are catching up.
So yeah great advice.. we need to slow them down while we catch up.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":4982889,"authorDomain":"Jivatmanx"}
Throw out the antibacterial soaps and quit running to the damn doctor an antibiotic every time you get a runny nose.
Would be more effacious to stop feeding antibiotics constantly to healthy cows/pigs chickens.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":4984705,"authorDomain":"jaybutler"}
I had a friend who died the same way a few years back. It was an incredibly sad slow progression of the infection. He had lost both hands and both feet, but his health steadily declined.
A daughter of a former co-worker more recently battled a similar infection and survived. Unfortunately, she also had to have both hands and both feet amputated.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":4985592,"authorDomain":"awake"}
The headline of this article alone on cnn.com (which is one of the few websites I allow myself to check at work, yay for big brother monitoring me) almost made me throw up on my keyboard, "Brazilian model has hands, feet amputated".
very tragic and sad no matter who it happens too.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":4985836,"authorDomain":"ElliePhat"}
I hate to hear this. Such a tragic end and much, much too soon. This poor girl. What a horrible death. If I recall correctly the trouble started with a misdiagnosed urinary tract/kidney infection.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":4981424,"authorDomain":"ballew74"}
Very sad story, I heard about her losing her hands and feet. Thanks for the wise advice.
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- 8 votes
#2 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:12 PM EST{"commentId":4981455,"authorDomain":"shep999"}
Sorry to here about your friend. This is a big story. My wife had a nasal infection for three months. She went to the first doctor after 6 week and then a Ear, Nose and Throat doctor for the second prescription, that was for 10 days, which took care of it.
Not to over dramatize the problem, but I think we could easily have a health problem larger than the 1917 Flu before 2010.
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- 3 votes
#3 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:14 PM EST{"commentId":4982774,"authorDomain":"wharrison55"}
The growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is growing and represents a major health risk in hospital surgical procedures and recovery. I'm talking here primarily about staph.
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- 7 votes
{"commentId":4983606,"authorDomain":"tyroanee"}
Bill
I read this story late last night... tragic...very sad everything she went through.
I am deeply saddened by your loss of Phil and hope you are remembering all of your great times together.
The world is so caught up with being germ phobia nut heads with all the soap and sprays and good golly what else?
If they only realized what they were doing to their immune system not to mention our environment, they would be shocked!
I pride myself in having a clean home... but not one I could eat off the floor from... I raise my children around animals and gardening, under only extreme cases should you take antibiotics for an infection, otherwise you weaken your natural one.
Thks for the seed.
Michelle
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":4983070,"authorDomain":"timmullinspoundva-1"}
In East Tennessee this is perfectly acceptable standards of health care. Profit Care comes ahead of Patient Care. www.wisecountyissues.com
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#4 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:35 PM EST{"commentId":4983514,"authorDomain":"lprieta"}
This is sad - my grandmother picked up something like this in a hospital in Canada when she went in for a broken hip. Well she had to move to another hospital as all the locals were convinced that since she was Indian (Native American to you) she was bringing the germs in! She ended up in this other hospital for about a month and a half undergoing massive medications.
When I went to "Read Article", a YouTube video played and across the bottom a Google ad pops up - "Find Brazilian Women" (or something like that) - that's not right!
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- 2 votes
#5 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:20 PM EST{"commentId":4983963,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}
Hey Bill, just an editting glitch in your headline. Please feel free to eliminate this msg: Brazilian
A sad story about a terrible disease...
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- 1 vote
#6 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:59 PM EST{"commentId":4984481,"authorDomain":"wharrison55"}
Thanks. Indeed this story is quite horrific indeed. In the case of my friend, he was stricken while on vacation in Amsterdam. Believing his illness initially to be just a garden variety upper respiratory infection (he flew constantly worldwide as head of Pew's environmental group, a group he founded), he visited a local doc who was not that concerned. But the infection went into almost immediate sepsis after that (a la the late Jim Henson) and he was placed on a ventilator and then life support when the organ systems began failing. With the antibiotics failing it was just a matter of time (four days) before massive systemic organ failure killed him. I still cannot believe it.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":4984526,"authorDomain":"austin-coe"}
Things like this really make me worry about the future we'll be facing in the next decade or so. Everyone is so afraid of having the sniffles that they compromise their immune system by taking tons of medication (while filling up our countries already crowded ERs to get it).
I know washing your hands is important to prevent the spread of disease, but the people caring around gallons of Germ-X in their bags need to realize their only making it worse for themselves.
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- 2 votes
#7 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:01 PM EST{"commentId":4984958,"authorDomain":"caroaber"}
God bless this beautiful young lady and her family.
I hope Giselle Bundchen, herself a Brazilian super model, shows her support. This angel needs to be remembered and honored.
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- 3 votes
#8 - Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:39 PM EST{"commentId":5001335,"authorDomain":"rickkeough"}
{"commentId":5006803,"authorDomain":"lastofthezucchiniflowers"}
Pseudomonas A. is a terrible organism. Her life was lost to a dreaded sepsis cascade. To see this happen is indeed frightening. I pray for her family and may she rest in peace. When anyone has fever with chills and is previously healthy, please see a doctor promptly. It takes very little time for this to happen. With multidrug resistance pseudomonas, only a few drugs work against it. From what I hear, by the time she came to medical attention, she was already in the grips of serious infection. What a tragic waste of life. People die from sepsis each day. I've mentioned it previously in other threads, but in our country alone $17 million dollars are spent in hospitals trying to fight these organisms. They are everywhere and live in water, soil, etc., in most folks, it doesn't cause illness, but something happened in Mariana's body which turned this bug into a killer. Once bacteremia sets in (organism gets into the bloodstreatm), it is often a losing battle against time. However, some do survive but often with terrible consequences. There ARE drugs that fight overwhelming sepsis, Xigris is one, but it is SO expensive and has SO Many dangerous SFX that it is used only in cases of life and death. I wonder if they used Xigris on this young lady. The biggest risk is bleeding, so the treatment itself can be life threatening. I don't hold anyone responsible. And once the real facts are out - then hopefully we can learn from this young lady's needless death.
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- 1 vote
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