Why keeping a regimen of a few anti-biotics in the fridge is good practice. But of little use if the culprit is ...
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Yes. A further difficult problem is when certain bacteria are flourishing in a persons body, causing say, Klebsiella pneumonia, a dose of antibiotics that kill the bacteria also cause them to burst in the person, giving off endotoxins (gram negative bacteria) or exotoxins (gram positive bacteria). These toxins can trigger an unfortunate immune reaction in the person, causing septic shock and death from multi-organ failure. Again, Jim Henson (Muppets creator) was in his 50s and died after a very brief respiratory illness. It went from bad cold to pneumonia to unconscious, to death, in a couple or 3 days.