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WPinVA
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http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/08/05/atlanta-mom-dies--quick-moving-illness/31198779/

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Lymedin2010
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Authorities will never know....hmmmmm.
They just don't care to look further & find out?

It might be one of the new emerging viruses or any other newer ones being spread my mosquitoes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2641706/Oklahoma-man-second-person-die-new-Heartland-virus-carried-ticks.html

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Keebler
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If they found out now (too late), the doctors would be in trouble (legal & otherwise) for not considering it. They are not about to try.

It is just beyond belief that they did not even consider a tick borne infection -- also that they are not doing post mortem tissue testing for it would be the right thing to do.

If this were a murder, there would be intense investigation into every aspect of what stopped her life. A gunshot wound would have been examined by angle, etc. A timeline of what lead the murderer to do this, what might have helped prevent it.

But, no, not for "oh, just some odd virus" when, in fact, there are other kinds of infections but doctors never tell families that.

They are content to let it slide so they can continue to be lazy and ignorant - and make possible future patients feel like they are just being OCD to want to know more so as to prevent this for others.
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