Tick bite leads to 4 amputations for mom on vacation

After the vacation, Rogers began feeling sick and they simply assumed that she just had a flu due to simple symptoms like headaches and fevers. The disease is treatable with antibiotics, but that treatment has to start within the first five days of infection.

That one bite, enough for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to ravage Jo’s body. Her family believes she was bitten during a vacation last month, KOCO reported.

The chance of infection from tick bites increase during the summer, and people become increasingly vulnerable to the fever as they age.

“By Saturday morning, her arms and feet were turning dark blue and black”, Morgan said.

Oopspro statistics the function was also needed to safeguard Jo Rogers’ daily living over what is known as the poorest matter of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever ever informed.

Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg mid-thigh, her left leg below the knee and both arms below the elbows to save her life.

According to CNN, Rogers – who now can’t speak or walk – fought for her life on a ventilator in a medically induced coma.

Rogers’ case may be rare, but tick-borne infections are not.

Jo Rogers, 40, was a healthy mother of 2 children when she contracted a mysterious illness over the 4th of July weekend.

In cases like Rogers’, the bacteria infect cells that line a person’s blood vessels, damaging the vessels and causing a loss of fluid, which leads to a drop in blood pressure, Adalja said. The rate of infection is three to 10 times the national average in five states, with Oklahoma being one of them. “Only 1% to 3% of ticks carry the bacteria called Rickettsia rickettsii, according to Oklahoma’s health department, and to transmit it, the host tick usually has to bite for four to six hours”, according to CNN.

A spokesperson for Integris’ Baptist Medical Center told ABC News that Jo Rogers’ physician declined to be interviewed but confirmed she was now at the hospital being treated for RMSF and that she has had amputations. “I mean nobody deserves this”, she told KOCO-TV.