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TICK BITE leads to
amputation of
woman’s limbs
A fought for her life on a her vacation in July.
TICK ventilator in a medically Four days later, Rogers thought she’d caught an
induced coma. Her family intense flu. A day after that, she was in a hospital
bite led to is now focusing her attention being tested for aggressive, life-threatening diseases
on getting through this. like West Nile and meningitis.
amputations on all “She was shaking her hands because they hurt, her
“You’re going to get to watch feet hurt,” Morgan said. Rogers went into septic
four of an Oklahoma woman’s limbs. your boys grow up,” her cousin shock, and her limbs turned black and blue. Doctors
Lisa Morgan tells her. Rogers, 40, has amputated them below the knees and elbows in a
Doctors did it to save Jo Rogers’ life from the two sons, ages 12 and 17. The intensity series of operations, to try to keep the disease from
of Rogers’ case may be rare, but infections spreading to Rogers’ vital organs.
aggressive bacteria the insect passed on. unfortunately are not. Few people die from
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever anymore, since it can They also located a blood clot in one of her lungs,
It’s the worst case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever be treated with antibiotics. But treatment should start Morgan wrote on a gofundme page she set up with the
in the first five days of infection. Rogers appears to title “Help Jo” to take donations for Rogers’ mounting
they’d seen, Roger’s cousin Lisa Morgan said. Rogers have missed that time frame. medical bills.
A carrier tick may have dropped onto Rogers when “She’s a beautiful, energetic, fun person,” Morgan
she visited Grand Lake in northeast Oklahoma during said. “Nobody deserves this.”
SHORTAGES push some
Venezuelans to queue
overnight for food
AS DAWN breaks over the scorching where she arrived at 3 a.m. on a recent supermarket in the hopes of finding ubiquitous in nighttime queues.
Venezuelan city of Maracaibo, day. food for her nine children. Working in groups, they swarm stores
smugglers, young mothers and The food shortages in Venezuela, a when goods arrive.
a handful of kids stir outside a major oil producer, stem from currency SMUGGLERS SWARM STORES Some of those waiting in line
supermarket where they spent the controls that restrict the availability Soldiers with riot shields, tear gas in Maracaibo readily identified
night, hoping to be first in line for of U.S. dollars for imports. Lower canisters and rifles patrol lines themselves to Reuters as smugglers.
scarce rice, milk or whatever may be oil prices, a recession and rampant in Maracaibo, a major city in the President Nicolas Maduro, saying
available. inflation have further darkened the northwest. smugglers are depriving the poor, has
Some of the people in line are half- economic outlook. Scarcity is particularly acute here vowed another crackdown. “What’s a
asleep on flattened cardboard boxes, The Information Ministry did not because smugglers - taking advantage bachaquero?” he said during a speech
others are drinking coffee. Almost all respond to requests for comment. of the leftist government’s policy of on Tuesday. “It’s a human being turned
are bemoaning their situation. There have been scores of looting fixing prices on some goods - buy savage.” While there is resentment
With shortages of basic goods and attempts this year, fuelling fears of products to sell for profit in nearby towards resellers in queues, more
looting on the rise, more Venezuelans worsening scarcity. Several states Colombia. than 60 percent of Venezuelans
say they are resorting to nighttime banned nighttime queues earlier this “We have to maintain control otherwise blame shortages on the government,
waits in front of closed stores. year, at times citing problems with there would be chaos,” said Lieutenant according to pollster Datanalisis.
“I can’t get milk for my child. What are crime. Carlos Barrera, 21, pushing back “We want change. We need this
we going to do?” said Leida Silva, 54, “I’m scared, of course, but it’s the only crowds at one supermarket. government to collapse,” said Yanet
breaking into tears outside the Latino way we can eat,” said Ofenia Gonzalez, Smugglers known as “bachaqueros,” Moran, 19, after five hours queuing in
supermarket in northern Maracaibo 46, spending the night outside a after a large leaf-cutter ant, are the dark.
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