34-year-old mortgage loan officer Oliver Johnson has flesh-eating disease
Got this from Scott Loughrey.
Friends of Oliver Johnson said his doctors at the Queen’s Medical Center diagnosed him with necrotizing fasciitis, a Group A streptococcal infection that “destroys muscles, fat and skin tissue,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The disease forced the amputation of his left leg above the knee Monday, his friends said. His body also went into Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome, which causes blood pressure to drop rapidly and all major organs to fail, they said.
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Discovery Called Key Evidence Of Vertebrates’ Ocean Origins
Researchers found several fossils between four and nine feet long. The creature was a fish — with scales, fins and gills — but it moved its head independently of its body, could drag itself along on land as today’s seals do, and may have walked, although the research team did not find fossil hindquarters to test that hypothesis.
The discovery provides the best evidence yet that fish emerged from the oceans and rivers of the early Earth between 380 million and 360 million years ago and evolved into terrestrial vertebrates beginning with amphibians and reptiles, and ending up with mammals and, ultimately, humans.
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