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A clinical laboratory bacteriologist in California became ill with influenza symptoms and nausea
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| Baby, I don't feel so good... | |
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| What seems to be the problem... | |
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During the next 24 hours, she developped fever, myalsias, diarrhea, and confusion. Her husband informed ambulance personnel she had a mishap in the lab 1 week earlier...
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| My wife had a mishap in the lab 1 week ago with the type of organism that causes meningitidis | |
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| Boy am I glad I wore my space suit to work today... | |
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Within 6 Hours she was dead. the final autopsy was "clinical acute intractable shock, constant with acute meningococcemia"
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