Has anyone been keeping up with this ?

[hey_moe]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...-bacteria?lite This is a sad thing to happen to a young girl. I have never heard something like this coming from a lake.It just goes to show you that something so simple can lead to death sometimes.

[cheezyflier]

it's alot more common than people realize. i know of several cases where guys at work have picked up similar bacteria and necrosis - like diseases, pricking their finger or getting the tiniest of cuts.
one guy scraped himself on a rock in his garden, and picked up a virus that killed him.

[FAC257]

Back when I was still working on televised golf events one of our tasks was to set up the water cars. These are the cars that you see in the camera shots that look like they are sitting on top of the water with no support.

One year at the Greater Greensboro Open, one of the guys got a small cut on his hand while working in the lake that we were setting the car on. It obviously needed a few stitches but didn't look much worse than that. One of the guys drove him over to one of the clinics to get it taken care of. He came back to the site later that day, but couldn't do anything with the bandaged hand. The next morning thinking that something wasn't right, he went back to the doctor. Things got really ugly really fast. He never made it back to the site for the duration of the tourny and they kept him in the hospital until just before we all flew back home. The doctors told him that a bacterial infection, most likely from the water had gotten into the wound. At it's worst point they thought they were going to have to amputate his thumb. Luckily that didn't happen.


On another note, one of the things I run into at work is having to move alligators once in awhile. It's not the pain of a possible bite that I worry about the most, it's the bacterial stuff like this in their mouths from the water.

FAC

[Dain Arns]

A very good friend of ours was an avid fisherman, he loved to use a drift boat on the Bitterroot river. Him and his buddy were out one day, he came up against a half submerged tree to stop for a moment to grab something inside the boat, then used his hand to push off, and got a very small cut/puncture. By the time he got to the agreed exit point to meet his wife and pull the boat out of the river, his arm was swelling fast. Within hours the doctors were trying to convince his wife that they needed to amputate his arm. She said no, and they were able to save his hand and arm. But it took him many, many, months to recover. His health was never good after that incident, and probably led to his early death within a few years after that.

[stansdds]

This stuff happens all the time. Bacteria and viruses that normally pose no danger to humans become fatal or near-fatal infections once they get past our skin or mucous membranes. Then there are the drug resistant stains of bacteria that are emerging. Bacteria that used to be treatable are now becoming a death sentence for those who have become infected. Scary stuff out there.

[cheezyflier]

if you ever want to read a really scary book that is a true story, read "the hot zone" by richard preston.
it's about marburg and ebola virus, and a near outbreak right in the u.s. of a.

[Willy]

I've been following this and one thing that has really hurt that girl is that she already had lupus which affects your autoimmune system. My ex has lupus and infections that every one else would shrug off, would require extra medical care for her.

[aeromed202]

I hope I never come across a case of it. Gives me the willys how it can be acquired so innocently.

[hey_moe]

It just goes to show ya how backwards we still are. Something as simple as a cut can still kill you. That young girl was just starting to live and enjoy life and something as weird as that will most likely take her from here. I have never heard of something like this but have had my eyes open...Mike

[aeromed202]

All you can do is watch any skin break for alarmingly fast redness, pain, anything quicker and more dramatic than the usual body response to an insult.

[Daveroo]

anderson cooper had a show a few months back where two women had had stomach pain.both had passed out ( differant cities,didnt know eachother)but woke months later without arms and legs from an infection they had both contracted from some kind of cut...scary stuff.....the thaught of losing my hands is terrifying to me...if for no other reason..once allready in my life ive had to have someone else care for my needs in the bathroom...if you follow me...its horrifying..

i have an on going battle with MRSA,,i had a out pacient surgery on sept 1st 2009,it included a total of 7 wounds,two were very stubborn as the stitches had torn the very afternoon of the 1st ( day of surgery)....i was then sent to a hospital in downtown sacramento for a heart cath,its believed i acciered the MRSA there....to this day i still have a open wound about the size of a USD quarter,and about an 1/8th inch deep.....bleeds and weeps all the time...ive been hospitalised 5 times ,recieved IV antibiotics, skin grafts,scrapings...no fun...