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Rare bacteria puts teenager in hospital before holiday
NORMAL ? Morgan Conklin-Lopez is changing the lyrics to ?All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.?
?All I want for Christmas is my chest tube to be taken out,? said Conklin-Lopez from her room at Children?s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, where she has been a patient since Dec. 11...
...Her mother, Tara Conklin, said a team of doctors, including two infectious disease specialists and a blood specialist, still don?t know what caused the bacteria. Labs in California and Texas are analyzing fluid samples.
?She?s only the third documented case,? said Conklin, stressing all doctors say it is not contagious.
The ailment started with a sore throat on Dec. 7. Then Morgan had vomiting, high fever and severe headache. She went to a Twin City hospital on Dec. 9 and was treated for dehydration. Her pediatrician thought she had the flu...
Rare bacteria puts teenager in hospital before holiday
NORMAL ? Morgan Conklin-Lopez is changing the lyrics to ?All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.?
?All I want for Christmas is my chest tube to be taken out,? said Conklin-Lopez from her room at Children?s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, where she has been a patient since Dec. 11...
...Her mother, Tara Conklin, said a team of doctors, including two infectious disease specialists and a blood specialist, still don?t know what caused the bacteria. Labs in California and Texas are analyzing fluid samples.
?She?s only the third documented case,? said Conklin, stressing all doctors say it is not contagious.
The ailment started with a sore throat on Dec. 7. Then Morgan had vomiting, high fever and severe headache. She went to a Twin City hospital on Dec. 9 and was treated for dehydration. Her pediatrician thought she had the flu...