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An Alabama Microbiologist, aged 35 years prepares a gram stain from a blood culture of a patient known to have meningococcal disease...
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| I wonder if I should be wearing a mask... | |
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| I am going to get inside your brain HAHAHAHA..... I Just Need You to breathe in... C'mon, Breathe | |
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She goes to the doctors office with acute onset of generalized malaise, fever, and diffuse myalgias.... She was sent home that day
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| Doc I don't feel so Good... | |
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| Take some of these oral antibiotics, you should be fine... | |
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The next day, the microbiologist returned to the hospital, became tachycardic and hypotensive, and died 3 hours later. Blood cultures positive for N Meningitidis
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