Thread: Guatemalan girl likely died of sepsis shock after crossing border

Guatemalan girl likely died of sepsis shock after crossing border, hospital officials said
Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, had a 105.9-degree temperature and was revived twice by medical technicians before being flown by helicopter to a hospital.

Dec. 17, 2018 / 12:26 AM PST
By Amanda Covarrubias

Hospital officials who treated a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in U.S. Border Patrol custody said she appears to have died from sepsis shock, according to the most detailed timeline of her death released by the Department of Homeland Security.

Autopsy results that will provide the official cause of death were still pending early Monday.

The statement released by DHS elaborated on what happened to Jakelin Caal Maquin in the hours after she and her father were apprehended by federal authorities and she became ill.

She and her father, Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz, were picked up by U.S. authorities with a group of 163 migrants on Dec. 6 in a remote stretch of the New Mexico desert near the Antelope Wells Port of Entry. Hours later, after being put on a bus to a Border Patrol station, she began vomiting and died Dec. 8 at a hospital in El Paso, Texas.

Her death raised questions about how well authorities are prepared to deal with such emergencies and provided fuel for critics of the Trump administration's tough posture toward migrants crossing the border illegally.

The DHS said Border Patrol agents screened the migrants to identify any health or safety concerns.
"The initial screening revealed no evidence of health issues," the DHS statement released Friday said. "During the screening, the father denied that either he or his daughter were ill."

Authorities said the denial was recorded on a federal form signed by Caal, who speaks an indigenous dialect.

"At this time, they were offered water and food and had access to restrooms," DHS said.

About two hours later, a bus took the first group of migrants, unaccompanied minors, to the Border Patrol station in Lordsburg, New Mexico. The roundtrip took more than three hours.

Claudia Marroquin, 27, the mother of Jakelin Caal Maquin, is seen with her three other young children in San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala, on Saturday.Esteban Biba / EPA

As the second group, including the Caals, was preparing to leave on the bus around 5 a.m. on Dec. 7, Caal told Border Patrol agents that his daughter had become ill and was vomiting. Agents arranged for an ambulance to meet the family's bus at the border patrol station in Lordsburg about 90 miles away.

When they arrived at the station around an hour and a half later, Caal told authorities his daughter had stopped breathing. Border Patrol emergency medical technicians began administering medical care and called an ambulance, according to DHS.

"At this point her temperature was 105.9 degrees," the DHS said. "Agents providing medical care revived the child twice."

She was flown by helicopter to Providence Children's Hospital, and Border Patrol took Caal there by vehicle, a drive of more than four hours.

DHS said Jakelin was first taken to the emergency room and then transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit. She died at 12:35 a.m. on Dec. 8.

"The initial indication form Providence Hospital is that she passed due to sepsis shock," the DHS said. "Her father was with her."
Sepsis is the body's extreme response to an existing infection somewhere in the body that can lead to rapid organ failure and death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Officials said the Guatemalan consulate was notified.
The DHS statement also included an admonishment to migrants trying to get to the U.S.

"Traveling north illegally into the United States is extremely dangerous," the DHS said. "Drug cartels, human smugglers and the elements pose deadly risks to anyone who attempts to cross the border illegally. Once again, we are begging parents to not put themselves or their children at risk by attempting to enter illegally.

Attorneys for Jakelin's family rebutted the idea that she had been taken on a dangerous journey with little food and water.

"Jakelin's father took care of Jakelin — made sure she was fed and had sufficient water," the family's attorneys said in a statement on Saturday.

Caal and Jakelin were trying to "escape from the dangerous situation in their home country," the attorneys said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...s-said-n948666

A contagious bacterial virus she caught from the other SICK illegal aliens she was travelling with.

They all have contagious respiratory diseases!

They are putting our Border Patrol in danger with these diseases.

SEND THEM ALL BACK!



Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs.^[4] Common signs and symptoms include fever, increased heart rate, increased breathing rate, and confusion.^[1] There may also be symptoms related to a specific infection, such as a cough with pneumonia, or painful urination with a kidney infection.^[2] In the very young, old, and people with a weakened immune system, there may be no symptoms of a specific infection and the body temperature may be low or normal, rather than high.^[2] Severe sepsis is sepsis causing poor organ function or insufficient blood flow.^[8] Insufficient blood flow may be evident by low blood pressure, high blood lactate, or low urine output.^[8] Septic shock is low blood pressure due to sepsis that does not improve after fluid replacement.^[8]
Sepsis is caused by an inflammatory immune response triggered by an infection.^[2][3] Most commonly, the infection is bacterial, but it may also be fungal, viral, or protozoan.^[2] Common locations for the primary infection include the lungs, brain, urinary tract, skin, and abdominal organs.^[2] Risk factors include very young age, older age, a weakened immune system from conditions such as cancer or diabetes, major trauma, or burns.^[1] An older method of diagnosis was based on meeting at least two systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria due to a presumed infection.^[2] In 2016, SIRS was replaced with a shortened sequential organ failure assessment score (SOFA score) known as the quick SOFA score (qSOFA) which is two of the following three: increased breathing rate, change in level of consciousness, and low blood pressure.^[4] Blood cultures are recommended preferably before antibiotics are started, however, infection of the blood is not required for the diagnosis.^[2] Medical imaging should be used to look for the possible location of infection.^[8] Other potential causes of similar signs and symptoms include anaphylaxis, adrenal insufficiency, low blood volume, heart failure, and pulmonary embolism.^[2]
Sepsis is usually treated with intravenous fluids and antibiotics.^[1][5] Typically, antibiotics are given as soon as possible.^[1] Often, ongoing care is performed in an intensive care unit.^[1] If fluid replacement is not enough to maintain blood pressure, medications that raise blood pressure may be used.^[1] Mechanical ventilation and dialysis may be needed to support the function of the lungs and kidneys, respectively.^[1] To guide treatment, a central venous catheter and an arterial catheter may be placed for access to the bloodstream.^[8] Other measurements such as cardiac output and superior vena cava oxygen saturation may be used.^[8] People with sepsis need preventive measures for deep vein thrombosis, stress ulcers and pressure ulcers, unless other conditions prevent such interventions.^[8] Some might benefit from tight control of blood sugar levels with insulin.^[8] The use of corticosteroids is controversial.^[9] Drotrecogin alfa, originally marketed for severe sepsis, has not been found to be helpful, and was withdrawn from sale in 2011.^[10]
Disease severity partly determines the outcome.^[6] The risk of death from sepsis is as high as 30%, from severe sepsis as high as 50%, and from septic shock as high as 80%.^[6] The number of cases worldwide is unknown as there is little data from the developing world.^[6] Estimates suggest sepsis affects millions of people a year.^[8] In the developed world approximately 0.2 to 3 people per 1000 are affected by sepsis yearly, resulting in about a million cases per year in the United States.^[6][7] Rates of disease have been increasing.^[8] Sepsis is more common among males than females.^[2] The medical condition has been described since the time of Hippocrates.^[11] The terms "septicemia" and "blood poisoning" have been used in various ways and are no longer recommended.^[11][12]

Beezer, you were right about it being sepsis!

They will end up in our schools, infect our kids and they bring that home and infect other family members.

We are in flu season now too.

Trump...shut the WHOLE border down and send them back!



CDC NEEDS TO SHUT THE DAMN BORDER DOWN!

Those viruses that infect bacterial cells are called bacteriophage virus. ProtozoansProtozoa



Protozoa is an informal term for single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, which feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris. Historically, the protozoa were regarded as "one-celled animals", because they often possess animal-like behaviors, such as motility …

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are acellular or unicellular organisms. Some of the examples of disease caused by protozoa are amoebiasis, giardiasis, african sleeping sickness etc. Protozoa are found in freshwater, marine and in damp soil.


GIARDIA FROM DRINKING FILTHY WATER FOR 2,000 MILES!


THANK UNCLE CHUCK SCHUMER AND AUNT NANCY PELOSI FOR GIVING YOU THE GREEN LIGHT TO DRAG YOUR KIDS FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES THROUGH FILTHY TOWNS AND THEIR "OPEN BORDERS" AGENDA!!!

SHOW UP WITH A KID, ANYBODY'S KID, AND GET A FREE PASS TO THE GRAVY TRAIN YOU DISGUSTING SWAMP RATS!

PUTTING THEIR LIVES AT RISK AND OURS!

NO ASYLUM, SHUT IT DOWN...KEEP OUT AND STAY HOME!