That's nothing compared to my fucking hangover
The LA Times reports on the spread of methicillin resistant Staph infections, with this killer lede:
"Within 24 hours, the "bite" became a 6-inch welt with a bubble of pus that eventually ripened into a black wound. Over the next few months, scabs dotted her face. A hangnail caused her middle finger to bloat like a sausage. Her pierced ears oozed pus."
And then there's this description of a whole family hopping the train to necrotizing fasciitis-ville:
"When Thomas Lovato's 9-year-old daughter, Cynthia, developed tiny red bumps on her hips and abdomen in August, her pediatrician thought the young girl had flea bites.
The pediatrician prescribed the common antibiotic amoxicillin, but the boils didn't go away, said Lovato, a 38-year-old air conditioner repairman from San Jose.
He tried to help his daughter by popping them.Soon he spotted a pimple on his own neck that looked like an ingrown hair follicle. Within days it grew to the size of a quarter. Then a painful rash 10 inches wide erupted on his groin, he said. Another popped up on his chin.
In about a week, he developed a fever and went to the local emergency room, where doctors cut open the wound on his groin and prescribed amoxicillin, he said.
By the beginning of September, their boils were growing faster than they had before and were three times bigger. Cynthia would scream when anyone touched them. Pus started coming out from beneath Lovato's fingernails."
"Within 24 hours, the "bite" became a 6-inch welt with a bubble of pus that eventually ripened into a black wound. Over the next few months, scabs dotted her face. A hangnail caused her middle finger to bloat like a sausage. Her pierced ears oozed pus."
And then there's this description of a whole family hopping the train to necrotizing fasciitis-ville:
"When Thomas Lovato's 9-year-old daughter, Cynthia, developed tiny red bumps on her hips and abdomen in August, her pediatrician thought the young girl had flea bites.
The pediatrician prescribed the common antibiotic amoxicillin, but the boils didn't go away, said Lovato, a 38-year-old air conditioner repairman from San Jose.
He tried to help his daughter by popping them.Soon he spotted a pimple on his own neck that looked like an ingrown hair follicle. Within days it grew to the size of a quarter. Then a painful rash 10 inches wide erupted on his groin, he said. Another popped up on his chin.
In about a week, he developed a fever and went to the local emergency room, where doctors cut open the wound on his groin and prescribed amoxicillin, he said.
By the beginning of September, their boils were growing faster than they had before and were three times bigger. Cynthia would scream when anyone touched them. Pus started coming out from beneath Lovato's fingernails."
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