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know.
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.heighten her.
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know..
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which would make her risk higher for
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something like this. Or sometimes you just see it in normal people for God knows why. But she has a source where she could get an infection. The staph could grow in the leg or get associated with
the clot. It could grow and multiply. The body wouldn’t counteract it very well. And then all of a sudden you have it all over the bloodstream and you have a sick person.
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Det. Sudler:
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So this could...
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Minkoff:
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You know.
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.toxic shock.. .I thought.
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a vaginal exam when she got there and that was one
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of the things when I talked to the pathologist.. .did
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he check the vagina.. .was there a tampon in there.
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Because that’s that other group of people who get
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this staph.
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.overwhelming staph disease, which is
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this.
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this thing with the.
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the toxic shock.
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Det. Sudier:
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What time factor were.. .are we looking at for this
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to like you say go back. ..I mean.. .to.
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that it did in Lisa’s case?
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Minkoff:
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Well, like I said, it can.. .it can be fast. I’ve
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seen it in...in a matter of hours. Uh.
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.now how
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long the clot, was there or how long this was
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‘brewing. I can’t say.
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How.
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this...before the...the onset of life...you know....
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endangering factors to present itself? Would they
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have fever.
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Minkoff:
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Well, they might have fever. 11mm.
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body aches.
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illness
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