Posted on 07/25/2023 4:27:26 PM PDT by Twotone
Jose says; "No bueno".
I bet they are...
That's one helluva "lifesaving" treatment.
If you're going to take my hands and feet, just put a bullet in my head and save my family the burden of taking care of me.
Really?
I got lucky!
the vasopressor treatment did him in - not the flea bite
medical malpractice is a leading cause of death in the United States
Jose Fleasíano?
Libs are the ones who are bringing the fleas. Just don’t come to Texas if you are a liberal.
indeed!
covid, cancer, lyme disease....
Some infections can really turn deadly fast. This one, for example (though it dwells on the coach and not his deceased son-in-law.):
"Ar ar ar" - Mork
Not much money it?
“Not much money it?”
That seems to be the problem. Like Ivermectin and HCQ there’s not much money in it.
MRSA. Nasty stuff. I had it years ago, and I went to several doctors who all proclaimed it a "spider bite."
The spot would become inflamed, develop into a boil that would grow as large as a baseball and be very hard and painful. I would suffer through days of fever and misery and eventually it would get better. It would reoccur ever so often and after the third bout with it I went to another doctor who was an old friend. (fifth doctor I had seen) He took one look at it and said "Staph infection. You better hope it isn't MRSA, because that's stuff is bad and hard to get rid of."
"We'll take a sample and send it to the lab, and they will tell us what it is."
It was MRSA, but they found it could be treated with a particular anti-biotic, and so that's what happened. Haven't had a bout with it since then, but it kept trying to get a rot started in my flesh, but my immune system kept managing to fight it off.
MRSA is community wide in some places.
Horrible. I had no clue. So fleas all of a sudden can carry TYPHUS?
We have fleas hopping around outside because of squirrels. DH gets flea bites sometimes, let me look up. Hmm, this unforunate young man was certainly unlucky. Maybe he was mis-treated? Why did he have such horrible complications?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typhus
any of various bacterial diseases caused by rickettsias: such as
a
: a severe human febrile disease that is caused by one (Rickettsia prowazekii) transmitted especially by body lice and is marked by high fever, stupor alternating with delirium, intense headache, and a dark red rash
https://www.britannica.com/science/typhus
typhus, series of acute infectious diseases that appear with a sudden onset of headache, chills, fever, and general pains, proceed on the third to fifth day with a rash and toxemia (toxic substances in the blood), and terminate after two to three weeks. Typhus (actually not one illness but a group of closely related diseases) is caused by different species of rickettsia bacteria that are transmitted to humans by lice, fleas, mites, or ticks. The insects are carried person to person or are brought to people by rodents, cattle, and other animals. The most important form of typhus has been epidemic typhus (borne by lice). Other forms are murine, or endemic, typhus (flea-borne); scrub typhus, or tsutsugamushi disease (mite-borne); and tick-borne typhus.
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-typhus
Typhus is a disease caused by rickettsia or orientia bacteria. You can get it from infected mites, fleas, or lice.
Modern hygiene has mostly stopped typhus, but it can still happen in places where basic sanitation is bad or if it gets passed on by an infected animal.
There are three main kinds of typhus, each caused by different bacteria.
Murine typhus is passed by fleas to people if the fleas bite infected animals, mainly rats. Most U.S. cases have been reported in California, Hawaii, and Texas.
Epidemic typhus is a rare variety spread by infected body lice. It’s unlikely to happen outside of extremely crowded living conditions. One type of epidemic typhus can be spread by infected flying squirrels. But it, too, is very rare.
Scrub typhus is spread by infected chiggers, or mites, mainly found in rural parts of Southeast Asia, China, Japan, India, and northern Australia.
Doctors can easily treat all three kinds of typhus with antibiotics. But they can cause serious illness, so get treatment right away if you think you might have been exposed to it.
Typhus Treatment
The most effective therapy for all three kinds of typhus is the antibiotic doxycycline.
A single dose of doxycycline has proved effective against epidemic typhus. Doxycycline also works quickly on other strains of the disease.
For the best results, you should take it as soon as possible after your symptoms start.
If you’re allergic to doxycycline or if it doesn’t work, doctors may choose another antibiotic such as ciprofloxacin (Cipro).
Maybe he had some horrible allergy to flea bites?
Here in northeast Oklahoma, fleas are really bad this year.
A single flea bite?
I imagine there is more to this story.
BTW - was the flea divorced? Or just ….
Can’t hurt. Might help.
I think people are still wearing masks because of that line of thinking.
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