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http://www.livescience.com/59353-tattoo-flesh-eating-bacteria.html
A 31-year-old man died after he went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico and his tattoo became infected with flesh-eating bacteria that live in ocean water, according to a new report.
The man had recently gotten a tattoo on his right calf. Despite the common advice to avoid swimming for a few weeks after getting a new tattoo, the man went for a swim in the ocean just five days after he received the tattoo, according to the report, published [DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-220199] [DX] May 27 in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
A few days later, he developed a fever and chills, and his skin became red over his tattoo and on other parts of his legs. Soon after the man arrived at the hospital, the red, painful lesions on his legs turned purple, and he developed large blisters filled with fluid.
Also at CNN:
To make matters worse, the man had chronic liver disease from drinking six 12-ounce beers a day.
Jesus is my life.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:37PM (1 child)
Let me ask you this:
If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 1 out of 1,000 has a false positive rate of 5 percent, what is the chance that a person found to have a positive result actually has the disease?
The vast majority of doctors cannot answer this question correctly due to incorrect statistical training. Does that mean they have no more business diagnosing diseases than drunk Joe? I dunno but it is a sad state of affairs. Anyway, I think we could agree that drunk Joe is a step up from a parrot (who may or may not be drunk): https://preview.ibb.co/gAvuav/parrot.png [preview.ibb.co]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:57PM
Statistics and diagnosis are non-linearly dismorphic, you ignorant asshole!