UK girl dies after being bitten by a mosquito

In Britain, 21-year-old Orianna Pepper from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk was bitten by a mosquito and died. As it turned out, the mosquito carried a deadly infection. After the bite, the causative agent of the disease entered the bloodstream and very quickly reached the brain. The Independent talks about it.

The publication says that the girl studied to be a pilot, and in Antwerp, where she was bitten by a mosquito, she was to pass the exam.

When Pepper's condition worsened, she was admitted to the hospital. There she took antibiotics. But the drugs didn't help her. She died literally in front of her lover.

The fading of the girl lasted two weeks.

An autopsy showed that death was due to a septic embolism.

The infection entered Oriana's skin after being bitten by an insect. Then she hit the carotid artery and led to a septic embolism (acute closure of the lumen of a blood vessel) in her brain, said the expert who performed the autopsy of the British woman.

He added that he had never experienced anything like this before.

Septic embolism is a secondary infectious pulmonary process in which an infected thrombus (embolus) containing microorganisms from foci of extrapulmonary infection (infective endocarditis, abscesses of the abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal space, paratonsillar abscesses, skin infections, osteomyelitis, etc.).

Note that mosquito bites can spread diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, equine encephalitis. · Midges and midges are carriers of bartonellosis, leishmaniasis, mansonellosis and onchocerciasis.

Approximately 725,000 human deaths from mosquito bites are observed annually in the world. Most often, mosquitoes are carriers of infections. So, only the bites of malarial mosquitoes annually lead to death in 600 thousand cases.