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Flesh-eating germ kills woman in three days
North Carolina nursing assistant cut her finger on a wheelchair
Updated: 9:09 p.m. ET March 9, 2006
DUNN, N.C. - North Carolina health officials are investigating the death
of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days
after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a
nursing home.
Nursing assistant Sharron Bishop, 44, died Feb. 27. A doctor said a rare
flesh-eating bacteria may have entered her body through a thumb injury
and she turned from healthy to fatally ill.
The culprit was a rare invasive form of group A streptococcal bacteria,
said Debbie Crane, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health and
Human Services. The noninvasive form is widespread and is commonly known
for causing strep throat, she said.
"It's kind of like getting bitten by a shark or struck by lightning,"
she said. "It's not something that spreads to the community."
North Carolina gets about 125 reports of the invasive form of strep
annually, and about 10 percent are fatal, she said.
David Bishop said doctors at UNC Hospitals, where Sharron Bishop died,
have told him it's impossible to know how his wife contracted the rare
infection.
"The UNC doctors said she could have picked it up at the gas station, at
the grocery store, anywhere," he said. "We will never know."
Sharon Bishop complained on Feb. 24 about a swollen thumb. She had
jammed it at work and worried that she had dislocated it. David Bishop
took her to Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital, where doctors gave her pain
medication and sent her home.
The swelling got worse. By the morning of Feb. 27, her arm was twice as
large as normal and looked like it would burst, David Bishop said. Fluid
leaked from her elbow and wrist. She complained of terrific pain.
Dunn physician Abraham Oudeh diagnosed necrotizing fasciitis, an
infection that destroys tissue.
Doctors at UNC Hospitals that evening tried to stop the spreading
infection by amputating her arm at the clavicle and removing all the
muscle and tissue around her left breast, torso and thigh in a futile
effort to save her life.
Harnett County Health Director John Rouse Jr. said Bishop's was one of
two confirmed cases of the bacteria that his office investigated in
recent days after being notified by state health authorities. He said he
believed the other woman, whom he also did not identify, knew Bishop.
Rouse said it would be impossible to determine whether they passed the
bacteria to each other. Rouse said the other woman is recovering.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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10 Mar 2006 11:39:09 AM |
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"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11752394/
Flesh-eating germ kills woman in three days
North Carolina nursing assistant cut her finger on a wheelchair
Updated: 9:09 p.m. ET March 9, 2006
DUNN, N.C. - North Carolina health officials are investigating the death
of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days
after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a
nursing home.
Dang! That is freakin' scary! :(
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
Atheist ***** Extraordinaire
#1557
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| User: "Cary Kittrell" |
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| Title: Re: Flesh-eating germ kills woman in three days North Carolina nursing assistant cut her finger on a wheelchair |
10 Mar 2006 12:04:20 PM |
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In article <47drq2Fekus6U1@individual.net> "Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> writes:
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:vd4312lt4eu84hriel2jrg83racm6sm22o@4ax.com...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11752394/
Flesh-eating germ kills woman in three days
North Carolina nursing assistant cut her finger on a wheelchair
Updated: 9:09 p.m. ET March 9, 2006
DUNN, N.C. - North Carolina health officials are investigating the death
of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days
after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a
nursing home.
Dang! That is freakin' scary! :(
But not new -- necrotizing fascitis has been around forever, and
many or most of us probably harbor the bacteria for it. As far
as I know, no one knows why it occasionally runs amok.
-- cary
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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10 Mar 2006 01:00:30 PM |
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"Cary Kittrell" <cary@afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
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In article <47drq2Fekus6U1@individual.net> "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> writes:
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:vd4312lt4eu84hriel2jrg83racm6sm22o@4ax.com...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11752394/
Flesh-eating germ kills woman in three days
North Carolina nursing assistant cut her finger on a wheelchair
Updated: 9:09 p.m. ET March 9, 2006
DUNN, N.C. - North Carolina health officials are investigating the
death
of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days
after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a
nursing home.
Dang! That is freakin' scary! :(
But not new -- necrotizing fascitis has been around forever, and
many or most of us probably harbor the bacteria for it. As far
as I know, no one knows why it occasionally runs amok.
Oh yes, I've definitely heard of it before this, but it's still scary :(
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
Atheist ***** Extraordinaire
#1557
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