Posted on 07/23/2017 6:35:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“To say that someone acquired it in New Hampshire and we have flesh-eating bacteria isn’t exactly accurate,” said Beth Daly, chief of the Infectious Disease Bureau for the New Hampshire Division of Public Health.
“You never will know where the bacteria came from, but most people are getting the bacteria first from themselves.”
Here’s what we do know:
It was June 4 when Atkins came to New Hampshire to celebrate a family wedding.
And, Atkins said, while here he went for a hike on Mount Garfield located at the western edge of the White Mountains in Grafton County.
Atkins said he got some blisters, but that’s typical, so he ignored them until he came back to Miami and started feeling sick.
“As you probably saw by now, I’ve been in the hospital about a month now with a pretty crazy (and common) infection,” Atkins posted on Facebook late last week.
Infectious Disease Chief Daly said Atkins’ failure to properly treat his wound is likely what led to the life-threatening condition.
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“He could have had it in his own throat. He could have gotten it from other people before he came to New Hampshire to hike,” Daly said.
“The bacteria then entered the wound and led to this unusual complication that does occur in up to 1,000 cases across the country every year.”
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Translation #1: “It’s not our fault.”
Translation #2: “It’s his own damn fault.”
Translation #3: “I’m hired to do PR for New Hampshire.”
“Ms. Daly sounds a little testy about the subject....”
Maybe she has family who serve on a NH tourism board.
The guy needs to blame it on an infected blister, not where he was hiking.
I wonder if NH is worried about it hurting tourism.
flesh-eating bacteria in his own throat???
Yes, it is possible if it is inserted by...well, let’s just say an unnatural act.
She sounds like an idiot.
Yes, strep is around us all the time and on us all the time.
This can happen anytime, especially to those who have weakened immune systems.
I Hate New Hampshire Flesh-Eating Bacteria.
It’s what got the Old Man on the Mountain.
He looks older than his mother.
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“Atkins hiked June 5 in the White Mountains in New Hampshire and got a bad blister on his foot.”
They are blaming the White Mountains, had he been hiking in the Black Hills, no such blame would have been ascribed.
No it wasn’t over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. But when the Germans bombed the Panama Canal, that did it.
IIRC, there's a unusual stone structure at the summit; story is, it's the foundation of an old fire tower.
He lived life on the edge.
I questioned whether it was on the AT, but the “through hiker’s guide” lists the Galehead Hut and Greenleaf Hut, on the side of Mt. Lafayette, as two places to stay overnight, and Garfield’s in between the two, so you’re right.
I climbed it twice in the late 1970s. There was a part of a concrete foundation presumably for a fire tower at the summit.
Now is a good time of year to hike Garfield.
He can’t possibly know where he picked up the bacteria or how long he’d been carrying it around.
One in four people carry MRSA around on their skin. I wouldn’t be surprised that the flesh eating bacteria was about the same.
I know of someone who end up with a MRSA infection with NO breaks in the skin at all, no injury that they could ever trace it to. The doctors cannot figure out how or where he got the infection, but it about killed him.
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