7 Heroin Users Dead From Flesh-Eating Bacteria Outbreak in San Diego

HIVPlusMag ^ | December 10, 2019 | David Artavia

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A flesh-eating bacteria associated with black-tar heroin has taken the lives of seven people in San Diego within the last two months. Now, the San Diego County Health and Human Services is warning health officials to stay cautious.

According to the health department, these seven people died from myonecrosis, a severe infection that destroys muscle tissue. All of them were between the ages of 19 to 57, and five were male.

According to the New York Times, the seven deceased victims were "among nine people admitted between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24 to county hospitals with the condition after injecting black-tar heroin, a dark, sticky drug that often contains impurities resulting from crude processing methods."

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Hmmm, let me see if I can work up some sympathy for these victims.... working.... working............... nope.

[SkyDancer]

I guess that’s one way of quitting.

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100% success rate.

[polymuser]

Nature’s way of telling you...

[dware]

Excellent!

[CatOwner]

I’ve never read it one way or another, but I hope those who contract this bacteria can’t pass it along to an otherwise healthy, innocent person.

[catnipman]

seems like it’s kind of bad for business to kill your repeat customers ...

[NRx]

Prayers for their families.

[Ezekiel]

What on earth happened to these people, or what series of bad decisions did they make, that led to this outcome?

Only God knows, but it’s just terrible how people end up dead.

Dysfunction Junction. :(

[Midwesterner53]

Nature has a way of cleaning up the environment, just like HIV, these exotic diseases seem only to concentrate in certain groups......groups that abuse nature.

[jonascord]

The problem is self-correcting. I hope it hurt, a lot...

[SkyDancer]

Well as my gramps sez: I’m takin’ it real easy until the day I die then I’m gonna taper off.

[I-ambush]

“All of them were between the ages of 19 to 57.” That there’s some shoddy rhetoric.
What, no toddlers; no octogenarians?

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I think it’s actually very hard to catch. From what I’ve read you have to have it your skin scratched open and it exposed to your flash for you to contract it.

[umgud]

My ex wife is 66 and still doing drugs. Doesn’t seem to faze her. I think she will live to be at least one day older than me.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My plan is working!

[MayflowerMadam]

That’s a shame.

[Taxman]

I’m trying to work up some sympathy for these folks who live in one of the most delightful cities in America and choose to commit suicide?

Sorry. Not finding any!

[redshawk]

Sounds like a horrible way to die. Addictions of any kind are always a bad thing.

[AFreeBird]

Spirit