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you mentioned and the bruising.
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anything like that? Had you discussed that with her?
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Minkoff:
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Well, I said.. .you know.. .“It looks like she’s septic”.
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In fact, the concern I had was that we were all.. .we were all now exposed to this...you know. If it’s meningococcus, there’s a risk to everybody whose
.you know.
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.with her..
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touched her.
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or been close to her. Umm.
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.so I said.. .1 mean.. .that’s.. .it’s... I.
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.I said to her.. .1 think I said to her that it. it.
.it looks like she’s got meningococcemia.
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.that she’s septic. And umm.. .you know. .what was the story on her. And then I..
.I don’t think there was anything other than that.
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.sore throat in the morning.
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.massive diarrhea during the day.
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.uh.. .big weight loss.. .and then her seeing her after dinner.
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the circumstances I don’t really know prior to them bringing her up.
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Det. Sudler:
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When. .when did you rule out that she didn’t have
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meningitis.
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.I guess that’s meningococcemia...
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Det. Sudler:
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The short form of it?
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Minkoff:
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Yeah. Some people with meningococcemia get
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meningitis. Uh.. .the ones that die fast don’t even get meningitis. It kills them before even..
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the bug even gets to the central nervous system. .they.
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.they die.
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Minkoff:
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Uh.
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.when I came in the next day.
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.I came in at noon
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and my shift started at noon the next day. Umm.
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.I called the lab to see if there was anything growing in the blood cultures and they were negative. But by 9.
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.my shift goes from noon until 10 or 11... I talked to the lab again at 9:30 that night and they said they had a positive blood culture. And I thought
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