As I reported earlier this year, there are brain eating amoebas out there in gross water that stupid people swim in (or lets their kids swim in). This thing only needs to get into your nose to tunnel into your dome, and feast on the goo inside. Well, they are back, this time devouring our frenemies. In Pakistan 10 people have died from these tenacious critters. Same deal, they were swimming in disgusting water where these guys live. The crazy stat is that out of 123 cases from 1962-2011, one one person has survived!
Category Archives: Viruses, bacteria, plagues, disease
Fungal Meningitis: Day 8
Today’s updates in broad strokes:
1. 13,000 people exposed
2. 8 now dead
3. 105 sickened
Fallout: Now they are going to regulate these “Compounding Pharmacies”. Apparently they are barely regulated at all. The details are a nightmare to navigate. Read it for yourself here.
Fungal Meningitis:Day 7
New England Compounding Company has issued a voluntary recall, which seems ridiculous, considering they should have been made to recall this crap days ago.
91 Confirmed Cases
7 dead
States with reported cases:Â Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia
Fungal Meningitis: Day 5
UPDATE: 7 people are now dead, 64 cases total, and 25 states effected. The New England Compounding Company is not an accredited business. That is news to me. Apparently they have been operating without a lot of federal over site. Someone is going to hang for this one.
Fungal Meningitis: Day 4
We have more news on this outbreak. It was distributed by a company called New England Compounding Center. 23 states are effected, and they have a license to sell to all 50. 2 people have died , and 6 are severely ill. Meningitis is the inflammation of the spinal cord and the brain lining. These people were getting infected by a fungal contaminant in the steroid being injected into the patients spinal cord.
Requires an update:
1. Pertussis – “Whooping Coughâ€
2. Fatal rash caused by staph infection
3. “Flesh Eating Bacteriaâ€, also a staph infection
4. The Bubonic Plague
5. Ebola
6. Capnocytophaga – Woman lost hands and feet from dog saliva
7. Untreatable Gonorrhea
8. Kid died from a brain destroying ameoba, found in a lake
9. West Nile Virus
10. Hantavirus
11. Rabies
12. Typhus
13. Legionnaires Disease
14. New Jersey Superbug
15. Popcorn Lung
16. Saudi Arabian SARS
17. Spinal Meningitis (Caused by fungus)