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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (270016)1/25/2006 8:18:31 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (3) of 1573430
 
I figured I better back that one up... it was a "flesh eating" bacteria, not virus...

Hispanic Group To Investigate Flesh Bacteria
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 3:29pm

A Hispanic advocacy group says it will investigate a case of flesh-eating bacteria that led to a woman's arms and legs being amputated. The group says a Sanford woman checked into a Longwood hospital to give birth and got the flesh-eating disorder.

ORLANDO (AP) Her four limbs were amputated 12 days later. A Los Angeles-based group that focuses on health issues of Hispanics says it will do an independent investigation. Medical records show that on April 28th, 24-year-old Claudia Mejia entered Orlando Regional South Seminole Hospital and gave birth to a healthy boy. She then contracted an aggressive form of streptococcus that resisted conventional treatment. Medical records show Mejia went into shock, gangrene set in, and her kidneys began to fail. She was later transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, where doctors were forced to amputate all four limbs to save her life.

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