Infectious Disease Researcher Dies From Rare Bacteria After Leaving Work
May 4, 2012 at 8:55 am by Morbid
San Francisco, CA – It’s almost like the plot of a horror movie. A 25-year-old infectious disease worker left work Friday only to die the next day after being infected with the contagious bacteria he had been working with.
The man worked at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center where, over the last few months, he had been working with a rare Neisseria meningitidis bacterial strain that causes septicemia and meningitis — both of which are nasty ways to go if left untreated.
Meningitis can lead to fever, headache, neck stiffness, coma and then death. By comparison, you would pray for this over septicemia, which is what investigators believe killed the man. Septicimia is inflammation of the bloodstream that causes bleeding into the skin and organs. A person unlucky enough to be afflicted with this blood poisoning can die very quickly from septic shock or ARDS.
Fellow employees described the man as competent and fully capable of handling the bacteria he was working with and the chief of the VA Hospital’s infectious diseases division said if the man had been working with the bacteria, he would have been wearing protective clothing from behind a protective safety cabinet or hood.…
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Decatur, GA — Dr. Kimberly Lindsey, a deputy director at the CDC, has been charged with two counts of child molestation and one count of bestiality. Authorities also charged Lindsey’s live-in boyfriend, Thomas Westerman, also a CDC employee, with two counts of child molestation.
According to police, Lindsey and Westerman are accused of “immoral and indecent” sexual acts involving a 6-year-old boy. Police have reason to believe the child was made to smack Lindsey’s bare ass and use some sort of electric sex toy on her during the couple’s sexual play. Authorities claim a medical professional treating the victim alerted police to the alleged abuse on August 24. The arrest warrant cites two incidents - the first in January of 2010, and the latest on August 22.
While investigating the child molestation accusations, police happened across evidence that strongly suggested Lindsey had, at some point, done the nasty with two household pets. Police say the bestiality charge does not involve the child.
The pair turned themselves in Sunday after learning a warrant had been issued for their arrest.…
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