posted on Jun, 11 2011 @ 08:51 AM
reply to post by alex1
alex1
Are we talking about the same thing here ?
hisz.rsoe.hu...
It is publicly unknown how many of over 1700 treated May 22 Missouri tornado victims now suffer the wrath of a rapid, aggressive fungal infection in
their wounds that is causing nerve damage, blindness, brain and lung blood clots and death, but Thursday, health officials issued a staff warning
about the killer fungus now that at least nine people have been treated and three or four died due to it. Dr. Uwe Schmidt, an infectious disease
specialist at Freeman Health System, said three or four people with the infection called zygomycosis have died reported the News Leader. Although
medical staff knew that the killer fungus was causing serious complications the week after the tornadoes, the situation was kept under cover until
Thursday. Still, a close approximation of the number of people infected with the deadly fungus is not being revealed. In the deadly tornado aftermath
that destroyed Joplin, Missouri's St. John Hospital, Freeman Hospital doctors treated over 1,700 patients while St. John Hospital doctors treated
patients in emergency makeshift facilities at Memorial Hall and McAuley Catholic High School.
The Zygomycosis fungus invades underlying tissue - the underlying blood vessels, and cuts off circulation to the skin causing the area to become black
according to Dr. Schmidt who says it is "very invasive." Head wounds are the most lethal, while the fungus remaining in an arm or leg have required
amputation to save the patient according to Tornado victims wounded near the head have died. As soon as brain tissue started dying, it was too late to
save the patient" according to the Leader. The real number of victims with the deadly fungus is unknown as the "report of numbers of cases of
reportable diseases are handled by public health departments," according to Cora Scott, a spokeswoman for St. John's Hospital in Springfield, who
has been referring all questions to Springfield-Greene County Health Department. Only a week after the tornado, three fungal infection patients were
admitted to Freeman Hospital and doctors tried controlling the fungus with intravenous medicine and by removing killed tissues. Dr. Schmidt said that
he and other medical staff could see mold in the wounds. "It rapidly spread. The tissue dies off and becomes black. It doesn't have any circulation.
It has to be removed."
There was a thread on this back in 2008
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Deadly Airbourne fungus in Oregon....
An AIrbourne Deadly fungus that causes necrotic tissue and death....hhmm there's your Zombie Apocolypse...
Regards
PDUK