The Killers Within (Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria) #4

pages 180-240

SUMMARY

There are flesh eating bacteria as well. A victim of forty four years old. Her name was Evangeline Ames Murray and on November 29, 2009, she had a pap cut-like sting on her index finger. Ironically, she had that mark after she had accompanied her husband to a hospital for a sinus surgery. Doctors thought that her red mark from her index finger was just a bite from a spider. When she was sitting in the waiting room for her husband, she seem to began to have a flu and her "paper cut" increased in pain and her finger changed color. On that very day, she had found out that her father in law died of a heart attack when she and her husband got home. Her finger turning black, she had to rush into the hospital despite the bad news upon her father in law. The blackness of her fingers began to spread into the other fingers. She then had dead flesh cut off from her finger that night, hoping that new flesh would soon grow back. She was treated with does of regular doses of several doses, including vancomycin. However, nothing seem to work. The bacteria had moved up to her arm day after day. Eventually, Evangeline survived when antibiotics began to help her fight off the bacteria.

QUOTE

"Sometimes as in Evangeline Murray's case, necrotizing fasciltis entered through a cut in the skin. Sometimes, to doctors' mystification, it seemed to pass from the throat internally to various parts of the body, then be provoked into infection by a mere bump or bruise."

REACTION
The authors include various stories upon different types of bacteria that possibly can endanger your life. there are different situations upon different doctors and patients. The details of different varieties of issues leaves the reader enough knowledge of what is going on and what the author wants the reader to know. All are different situations, but all have the same solution or attempted solution. Which is antibiotics for the most part. The quote reveals what had happen to Evangeline. The thing is that the doctors and the patients themselves doesn't know exactly what had happened because they tend to use the word "seemed" at various times. Not only that bacteria infections can come from a cut, but also internally from the throat then to a bruise or a bump.