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[TheWolf]

Brazilian model loses fight for life

Doctors had amputated 20-year-old pageant finalist's feet and hands

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SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian model whose feet and hands were amputated following a drug-resistant infection died early on Saturday, health officials said.
Mariana Bridi, 20, died at 2:30 a.m from complications related to a generalized infection caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat said in a statement. The bacteria is known to be resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics.
Bridi had been in the hospital in the city of Serra in Espirito Santo state since Jan. 3.
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Doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones in December, local media said. But as her condition worsened, she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that spread.
The cause of the infection was not immediately known.
It reduced the flow of oxygen to her limbs, causing her feet to be amputated last week and her hands this week. Part of Bridi's stomach was also removed as doctors tried to contain internal bleeding, local media said.
Health officials on Friday said Bridi was not breathing on her own and was undergoing hemodialysis at a hospital in the city of Serra.
Bridi was twice a finalist in the Brazilian stage of the Miss World pageant.
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[FullyEclipsed]

Terrible way to have to go and such a young age. Losing feet then hands while trying to fight for your life would be hard.

 

[Buster]

what about this quote from this article...800,000 people a year?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/23/model.bridi.amputated.brazil/

A doctor who recently published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine on the disease, told CNN that little was known about the illness, although it is the tenth leading cause of deaths in the United States.

"We know a lot about what happens once a patient contracts the illness but we know very little about what causes it," said Dr. Greg Martin of Emory University in Atlanta.

"It is a leading health threat in this country, killing at least 800,000 people a year," he said.

 

[Rambo]

Yea their are still some superbugs out there that have no cure. Very sad.

 

[Jack Herer]

The major problem is people have been abusing antibiotics or not using them in the proper way for many years now. For example, you are prescribed a specific antibiotic for 10 days and by day 6 you feel alright so you stop taking them... Well bacteria that are the target of this specific antibiotic start building up resistance to the point where it wont work anymore. That why scientists are focusing so hard in developing new antibiotics that can control highly resistant bacteria.

 

[sean1]

I think the 800,000 is from sepsis, not from urinary infections... Most sepsis does not come from UTIs although it can

 

[TheWolf]

How do you get this infection?

 

[bigplay]

How do you get this infection?

When you sign the admition form at the hospital, it is like a lotto ticket.

You are probably a 2000/1 dog to catch this particular infection, however when you add up all of the infections present in the building, you are almost even money to catch something.