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    Woman has both arms, legs amputated after tick bite


    (GoFundMe)

    A woman who contracted a potentially deadly disease after unknowingly being bitten by a tick during a July vacation in northeast Oklahoma had to have her arms and legs amputated.

    KOCO reported that Jo Rogers, 40, had her right leg amputated, her left leg amputated below the knee and her arms amputated below both elbows to stop the disease, called Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), from spreading. Rogers was vacationing at Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees, a 46,500 acre lake in the foothills of the Ozark Mountain Range in northeast Oklahoma that is well known for its bass fishing.

    Four days after returning from her vacation, Rogers thought she had a flu, but after her symptoms didn’t subside on the fifth day, she went to the hospital, where doctors tested her for West Nile virus and meningitis. Both tests came back negative.

    "She was shaking her hands because they hurt, her feet hurt," Rogers’ cousin Lisa Morgan told KOCO. Rogers’ limbs turned black and blue. On the seventh day after her return, doctors found she had been bitten by a tick and infected with RMSF.

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), symptoms of the disease start two to 14 days after the bite and include headache, fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, and muscle pain. Outpatient medication may help those treated early, while intravenous antibiotics, prolonged hospitalization or intensive care may be required for those with more severe cases.

    Oklahoma is one of five states where the infection rate for the disease is three to 10 times the national average. But according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, only 1 to 3 percent of the tick population is infected with the bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii (R. rickettsii), which causes RMSF. The tick most commonly associated with RMSF is the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis.

    The Oklahoma State Department of Health estimates that 3 to 5 percent of people with RMSF die, but death is uncommon with immediate diagnosis and treatment.

    Rogers' family has started a GoFundMe page to cover her increasing medical bills. They are focusing on helping the mother of two — her sons, ages 17 and 12 — stay strong.

    “You’re still with us,” Morgan said of her cousin. “You’re going to get to watch your boys grow up. You’ve got a lot of people pulling for you.”

    Click for more about Jo Rogers’ story from her GoFundMe page.

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    Last edited by dlevere; 08-14-2015, 03:03:06 PM.
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    Man dies from brain eating amoeba in Oklahoma lake


    Naegleria fowleri, also referred to as the "brain-eating amoeba" or "brain-eating ameba," thrives in freshwater at warm temperatures. It can cause a rare but deadly infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). (Dr. George R. Healy, CDC)

    An Oklahoma man has died after contracting a waterborne disease while swimming in a local lake, the Oklahoma State Department of Health told OKCFox.com.

    The man, referred to only as a Carter County resident, contracted Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare infection that derives from contact with Naegleria fowleri— also referred to as the brain-eating amoeba— while swimming in Lake Murray, a 5,700-acre lake in the south central part of the state.

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the amoeba is naturally present in most freshwater sources— like lakes, rivers and hot springs— and rapidly multiplies in very warm, stagnant water. Infection usually occurs when a person inhales contaminated water through the nose, by which the amoeba travels upward in the body, destroying brain tissue and causing brain swelling and death. The disease can’t be transmitted from person to person.

    "If you're diving or playing or swimming and you accidentally inhale water into your nose, and the amoeba gets into your nose, it travels up into the brain and causes encephalitis," Laurence Burnsed, an epidemiologist with the Oklahoma State Department of Health, told the news station.

    The devastating disease has historically claimed its victims' lives within days. Swimmers can protect themselves from PAM by not submerging their heads underwater, Burnsed advised.

    According to the CDC, PAM may also occur when contaminated water from inadequately chlorinated swimming pools, or heated and contaminated tap water enter the nose. Drinking water contaminated with the amoeba does not result in infection.

    Immediate symptoms of PAM, which include headache, fever nausea or vomiting, usually occur about five days after infection, but that period can range from one to nine days.

    OKCFox.com reported that PAM is more likely in places with warmer weather and the South, but there have been seven cases of the disease in Oklahoma since 1999.

    Of the 133 reported cases of PAM in the United States since 1962, only three people survived, according to the CDC.

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    • #3
      That shit is messed up! Feel bad for the lady.
      Spoiler Alert! Click to view...

      THE BAD GUY!!!!!!

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      • #4
        Losing 4 limbs would make me want to die. Unless there's some really good prosthetics out there, and I know there are definitely a lot of things being worked on that are good but not released yet as far as I know, I'd have no motivation to continue on living. No limbs means I couldn't even wipe after using a restroom, and that's just not going to happen.
        July 7, 2019

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        • #5
          No! i need my arms to what bungholio said. how we will play games? i just bought 8 "new" PS2 games and one of them is Gran Turismo 3

          anyways i would drown myself if i lose my limbs. how? put my mouth in the faucet.. the hot one

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          • #6
            It's not jokingly because "OMG I can't play videogames any more how will I live!?"

            It's really because what can I do any more than just talk? Struggle to open a door, can't operate anything of any kind like a controller, keyboard, remote, mouse, machinery, can't go to the bathroom on my own, clean, cook, take care of myself or help others, do anything. I'm not a talker and that's about all I'd be able to do any more is go around and say "I'm still alive and blah blah, life is still worth living."

            I'd rather gladly die, I am not a talker. I'm a stuff do-er on my own person. If I can't do stuff on my own, I sure am not going to let others help me do it, I'd genuinely rather die. Unless the really good rarely spoken of or displayed prosthetics are out or the goodies of regenerative medicine that have regrown entire limbs are released, there would be no reason to continue on for me.
            Last edited by bungholio; 08-16-2015, 12:20:20 AM.
            July 7, 2019

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