Posted on 06/21/2019 12:25:13 PM PDT by conservative98
A “vibrant” Queens mom of four is the latest fatality to be reported at a Dominican Republic resort — where she died within hours of coming down with a mystery stomach illness.
Donette Edge Cannon, 38, visited the embattled tourist destination on a family trip last year to Sunscape Bávaro Beach Punta Cana to celebrate her brother-in-law’s birthday.
Enlarge ImageDonette Cannon Donette CannonCourtesy of the Cannon family Cannon, who owned a catering business, arrived at the all-inclusive resort on May 14, 2018. She spent the next four days in the sun and taking pictures — even partaking on a dune buggy excursion.
“She was posting videos to show how much fun she was having,” her sister, Candace Edge Johnson, told The Post on Friday.
The group experienced minor stomach issues over the course of the trip, but nothing that caused concern for Cannon, who suffered from diabetes and was receiving dialysis treatment.
“For us, throughout the trip, we kept using the bathroom,” Johnson said. “We went to a restaurant in the same condition, anytime we ate we were using the bathroom.”
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Sometime, check out the wonderful, island-wide water system they have in Aruba.
Plenty of beach resorts right here in the good old U.S. of A.
Water is safe to drink, restaurants are inspected, cost of booze is much lower, everyone speaks English (mostly), you can get there w/o flying & have wheels when you arrive, and most of all you are not a target just for being an American.
It says “latest fatality” but she visited there last year?
Very true.
I have never understood why people go there. It just looks to be such an unclean place.
If you have major health issues, maybe you’d better only travel to first world countries? This woman was on dialysis - usually it’s hemodialysis three times weekly at a center, or peritoneal dialysis at home nightly. Did she skip sessions, and how many?
To me it sounds like someone used wood alcohol or methanol instead of ethanol for drinks. Kidney failure is one of the symptoms....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity
All went well until that night when I got out of bed, puked my guts out and spent over an hour on the john. Then I remembered the company had sent me with some recommended medication supplements. I pulled out the one labeled Seirogan, swallowed three capsules and almost immediately begin to stabilize. I went back to bed with no further ill effects or compromised health issues.
I'm not sure you would call it miracle drug. It is not costly and has a near infinite shelf life. But is sure worked wonders on that particular digestive issue and several since.
Id like to see how many people died within 2 years of staying at the Ramada Inn in Los Angeles, or New York. Or anywhere.
This. Most people have no idea of the advanced level of hyper-hygiene we take for granted here. We have all these rules and regulations and licenses and commissions, and they are there for a reason...
That’s some seriously bad juju!
You know you keep on hearing rumors that ebola has escaped from the Congo and is now spreading other places. Tourists have been mysteriously dying in Fiji too.
This happen over a year ago according to the article.
Most likely scenario is that a corrupt mafia is supplying all those resorts with tainted alcohol just because the price is “cheaper”. They slap the logo of corporations on the bottles so we’ll think we’re drinking legit booze.
People should visit an old cemetery from the 19th century or earlier. Or just read birth/death records online. You'll see child after child after child. The reason average life expectancy was so low prior to the 19th century wasn't that people died significantly younger than they do today, it's because so many of them never made it past being toddlers. In much of the world that is still true.
We live in the most perfect earthly place that humanity has yet experienced. And rather than moving to make it even better, as our parents and grandparents did, so many today take it for granted and even want to tear it down.
Many of the stories coming out now happened months ago.....like this woman.
The survivors are now coming forth comparing the earlier deaths with what’s happening now.
Read a personal account from someone who had been there and got sick. Just recently. From her remarks, it seems likely that staff has been stealing alcohol for themselves and replacing it with something else.
The Queen Mum died in 2002, and this is just coming out now?
Was she attending a cocktail party?
Too many secrets!
She had diabetes and was on Dialysis!!!
My wife had never been out of the country, other than our visits to the DR. She does everything "right." Washes her hands frequently, brushes her teeth with bottled water, etc. Last time we went, she got deathly ill; chills, shakes, fever, kidneys hurt. She thought she was going to die, and she was starting to make me worry. The local private hospital gave her some meds and probiotics.....didn't help. I fed her Tylenol and Pedialyte to manage her fever and keep her hydrated until we got home (couldn't get an earlier flight). U.S. hospital gave her some U.S. antibiotics. By day two or three in the U.S. she was at about 75% and the picture of health by day five.
Me - I've been to more s4!t40l3 countries than I have fingers to count on. I do everything "wrong." I eat all the local food and I drink the local water (even from the sink at the hotel by the "nonpotable" sticker on the mirror). I even eat street food in Africa. Foolish? Maybe. Maybe not.
I ate and drank all the same things she did (and more) on that trip to the DR and I didn't get so much as a sniffle. My bet, is my immune system can handle many of the bugs that area can throw at me, though I've lived through some bouts elsewhere in the 3rd world. However, I've noticed that over the last couple of years, I tend to get sick a lot less - at home, or abroad.
Locals, and people exposed to some nasty bugs from around the world may not be effected, or noticeably effected, whereas some folks without such exposures may get violently ill, and/or die.
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