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In 1995, we almost lost one of our children to this. She was 5 months old and had come to us from Vietnam not long before.
She probably got it here..thank God she got it here and not in Vietnam because she surely wouldn't have made it. As it was, she spent 2 weeks in Egleston in Atlanta and it was horrible. She too had to have surgery to remove the infected tissue.
The same year, we knew of several people who contracted it--a woman whose sweater had rubbed on her skin, a guy who was playing golf and some dirt hit him in the eye, and a woman who was cutting up chicken (she died within a day). Our doctor told us that at the same time our daughter was in the hospital, another of his patients had it: a little boy who had fallen and cut his head on a stereo. Within 24 hours, a huge red mask had swollen around his eyes and they thought he would lose his eyesight or even die. He got through it okay.
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