edkwon
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Several years ago I had a severe case of E. Coli infection. In my case, it attacked my bladder. It took me several months and a lot of medication to put an end to the infection, because it was always coming back a couple of weeks after I was feeling okay. Is this the same E. Coli infection that is scaring everyone right now?
It's reportedly a new strain that can cause the same syndromes 'Hemolytic uremic syndrome' and 'Thrombocytopenic Thrombotic Purpura'. This is not medical school nor are you medical students so I'm not gonna bother explaining in detail, but if you wiki them, they'll explain pretty well.
Basically the last scare in the US media of this occurance, some presumably pooed in a public pool, contaminated it with a different strain E Coli, several children who swam in that contaminated swimming pool developed acute kidney failure and bleeding issues and some kids died. It looks like in the past, kids and the elderly, basically those with weak immune systems, were at highest risk. Now when elderly die from these complications, ppl get upset but nowhere near as upset when innocently little healthy kids die tragically from this stuff. The media loves to take those events and turn it into a sh**storm (literally). From what I read, this new european strain is putting people in the hospital for the same reasons.