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that looked pretty good, who an hour when I went
.when I saw him in the hospital.. .went from
kind of feverish and sick looking to looking like
her.
Det. Sudler:, Okay.
Minkoff:
Okay. They could have plague. They could have
hemophilus influenza. There’s a number of different
bacterial things or like these African. . . these weird
sort of viruses. . .they can do it. And it can be
like BOOM.
Det.
Sudler:
Okay. How would you con. .contract this virus?
Is.. .is it something that’s.. .you know.. .airborne
or. .or can your body produce this itself?.
Minkoff:
Well, depends what it is. Like. . .like. . .like this
staphylococcus that she had. All of us has probably
in our noses.. .under our fingernails. . .and for whatever
reason, occasionally some people will get a. . .an
invasive infection. They might get boils or furuncles
.. .you know. Uh.. . or they might get a bone infection.
Or in rare cases, they might get this kind of sepsis.
Or I think the way that you put together this thing
with her is that she’s got a blood clot in her leg...
it’s sub-clinical, which means the leg’s not swollen
• .. .she’s not complaining about her leg but there’s
a clot in there. So now you’ve got blood that’s
not moving.. .that’s there.. .and for whatever reason
how the staph in one person versus another person
gets in or not, we don’t know. 11mm. . .you know...
• • •
unless she had some underlying disease. . .you know...
 did she have AIDS.. .did she, have some. immune
deficiency.. .did she have something like this...
which I have no idea. . .umm. . .which would. . .you

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