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Winners.

Phoenix police and firefighters saved the life of a 68-year-old woman after she collapsed at Sky Harbor on Thursday. Using CPR and a defibrillator, they were able to restore her pulse and breathing. She was then transported to the hospital.

The next day, a woman was placed in a police holding cell where she expired. She was detained for being belligerent. Apparently she went on to ‘medical distress’ after approximately 20 minutes of detention.

Woman’s life is saved.
Woman’s life is ended.

On Brain Eating Bacteria and Influenza Alerts
14-year-old Aaron Evans died of Naegleria fowleri last week. Naegleria fowleria is microscopic organism. It usually attacks the brain through the nasal cavity and then travels to the brain.

Just received an email from a reader about outbreak alerts. Although as far as I know there’s no real-time alert resource for Naegleria fowleri, there are other resources detailing outbreak alerts. Healthmap uses Google maps to illustrate disease outbreaks for the last 30 days including afflictions such as E. coli and influenza. There’s a link following the diagram.

A diagram of the organism from the Center for Disease Control:

AzCentral article.

Health Map.