Posted on 02/22/2022 12:35:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 19-year-old college student developed sepsis and lost his legs and fingers after eating leftover Chinese takeout food in what a doctor described as a “perfect storm” of events.
Dr. Bernard Hsu, a licensed toxicologist, described how the young man became severely ill after eating tainted leftovers, including lo mein, chicken and rice.
“This was a freak accident happening in a perfect storm sequence of events,” Hsu, who did not treat the man, in a YouTube video on Feb 16. The teen’s case was first reported in March 2021 in The New England Journal of Medicine, which detailed how he was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital as he was suffering from “shock, multiple organ failure, skin mottling, and a rapidly progressive reticular rash.”
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People with HIV are more prone to meningitis:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hiv+meningitis
Approximately 1 in 10 are “carriers” of the bacteria:
https://www.cdc.gov/meningococcal/about/causes-transmission.html
Seems to me there’s a reasonable chance this unfortunate young man was a carrier who had his immune system compromised by the stab. The leftovers may have had nothing to do with it, or could have been a trigger because he had weakened immunity.
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Amellican having sirry sense of humors but lovable.
Fridge detective for college guy....
This is either very fresh pesto or very old cream cheese.
ping
In college, I worked for about 3 weeks at a local sit down Chinese Restaurant. Most of the girls working were Chinese - at night closing duties, we had to vacuum and mop and it was quite arduous. The vacuuming was a lot easier and we all hated mopping.
When divvying up the duties, I offered to flip a coin and let them choose heads or tails to see who would have to mop - when they choose ‘tails’ I would say, “Heads I win, tails you lose”. They would look puzzled and then say, ‘ok’. I never mopped again.
Grew up in Burnaby off Hastings St.
The dive Chinese restaurant across the street occasionally served flounder from Burrard inlet, or so it was said.
A restaurant on Hastings not far from Empire Stadium was actually shut down when the health inspectors found a lot of cat meat in the kitchen.
In the 60s. Good times.
We’ll just look for the trail of fingers...
“college age”
that is a real serious problem right there
he’d have been better off taking large amounts of garlic, oregano oil topically and internally, tea tree oil, activated charcoal
China. Again.
Nuke it well, and eat it. No problems.
I suspect the guy in the article left the leftovers sit out, un-refrigerated for too long. Bacteria can form if not refrigerated, and reheated properly.
That’s the bachelor cook’s motto: “Hot grease kills germs.”
Works for family cooking too.
“In the 60s. Good times.”
We were eating cat tacos at restaurants by my Grandpa’s house. Best taco’s ever!
Now that’s an interesting thought.
My husband nicknamed me Botulism Bridget because I see nothing wrong with eating day’s old leftovers or food left out overnight. I have never gotten sick.
You’re my kind of cook.
He probably got them out of my x-wife’s refrigerator. She routinely kept things way in the back for a year or so.
Just reading the Headline I assumed it was a PO’d roommate.
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