Free Republic

TV Medical Reporter needs FReeper help. This is no drill. Five young children are in Orlando are in critical condition in local hospitals with highly unusual kidney failure. Some are on emergency dialysis and ventilators. They are very ill. Some may not make it. Doctors are not sure if the cause if the kidney failure is bacterially driven, but three have e-coli infections. The condition itself, hemolytic uermic syndrome, or “HUC,” often follows infection acquired from animal fecal matter. The only connection between the five, and another child who was treated for a milder case and released, is that they...