They survived the tornado but not the fungus it left behind.
Health officials in Joplin attribute three or four deaths to zygomycosis, a rapidly spreading and often fatal fungal infection. "It's difficult to say if it killed them, but it definitely was a contributing factor," Dr. Uwe Schmidt tells the Springfield News-Leader. Schmidt, an infectious disease specialist, says he has treated five patients and knew of four cases that had been found at another hospital.
A health department official says the fungus was likely distributed by soil or vegetative materials grafted to the skin by the force of the May 22 tornado. Schmidt said he saw mold in the wounds he treated.
Schmidt amputated the arm of one patient in an effort to the halt the infection. She later died.
Fungal infections often accompany natural disasters. Infectious disease specialists warned survivors of the 2005 Asian tsunami about the risks.
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This fungus is not rare.
What is rare is for people to go unwashed and without air conditioning for long periods of time.
Infections of indeterminable origins were the reason most people died by age 50 as recently as 120 years ago.
This fungus is omnipresent, particularly in the warm, moist climes of the south, and is of principle concern.
All emergency kits should contain large quantities of military Anti-Fungal powder, purchased surplus, and used on all moist areas of the body daily. Your emergency kit should also contain a steroidal anti-fungal cream and women's yeast infection fluconazole pills.
In the event a fungal infection gets a firm hold on its host, those two items are the only chance you have of survival.
Both are prescription only, but any doctor worth his salt should have no problem prescribing you some to keep for an emergency kit.
Fungus is lethal, you have to catch it and stop it early.
Once it’s got you over a large area, you've had it. Secondary infections and sepsis will do you in fast!
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