Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Family says girl battling MRSA from Oklahoma lake
June 28, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma girl is fighting a life threatening battle.
Her parents say she became ill after swimming in an Oklahoma Lake.
Friday is Aubreanna Nunez’s birthday, and she’ll spend it in the hospital.
Her family says she got MRSA from swimming in Sportsman Lake over Father’s Day weekend.
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“She has MRSA, and they said it’s from the lake we went swimming in on Father’s Day,” Fish said.
Within two days the symptoms started.
”Tuesday is the day she started limping on her leg and complaining that her leg was hurting. She couldn’t really walk on it,” Fish said. “She just laid down and had fever.”
Nunez stopped eating and her body began shutting down. By Thursday her mother rushed her to the emergency room.
Read more: KFOR
thanks to MRSA Watch
June 28, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma girl is fighting a life threatening battle.
Her parents say she became ill after swimming in an Oklahoma Lake.
Friday is Aubreanna Nunez’s birthday, and she’ll spend it in the hospital.
Her family says she got MRSA from swimming in Sportsman Lake over Father’s Day weekend.
.....
“She has MRSA, and they said it’s from the lake we went swimming in on Father’s Day,” Fish said.
Within two days the symptoms started.
”Tuesday is the day she started limping on her leg and complaining that her leg was hurting. She couldn’t really walk on it,” Fish said. “She just laid down and had fever.”
Nunez stopped eating and her body began shutting down. By Thursday her mother rushed her to the emergency room.
Read more: KFOR
thanks to MRSA Watch