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A teen ate leftover rice and noodles. Hours later, doctors amputated his legs and fingers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...od-disease-amputated-legs-fingers/6890754001/Hours after eating improperly stored leftovers from a restaurant, a 19-year-old was admitted to the hospital with multiple organ failure and had both his legs and all his fingers amputated.
The Massachusetts college student had eaten rice, chicken and lo mein from a restaurant.
The teenager was admitted to a hospital for "shock, multiple organ failure, and rash,” and his condition quickly declined. He experienced abnormal breathing, high blood pressure and vomiting. The student had been healthy overall with regular drinking and smoking habits, the report said.
After further tests, he was diagnosed with meningococcal purpura fulminan disease, . . .
The article later mentions bacterium . . .
the dangers of improperly storing leftover rice because items such as rice and pasta contain a bacterium called Bacillus cereus. The bacteria produces a toxin when heated and left out too long, . . .
https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/Preventing-Foodborne-Illness-Bacillus-cereus.pdf
The meningococcal purpura fulminans disease is a nasty illness!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28334263/
Neisseria meningitidis - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/meningococcal-diseasePurpura fulminans (PF) is a dreadful and frequent complication of Neisseria meningitidis invasive infection, and is associated with a high mortality rate. This syndrome begins with dermal microvessels thrombosis that rapidly lead to hemorrhagic skin necrosis. In this review, we discuss the prothrombotic events occurring during meningococcal infection.
So the meningococcal purpura fulminans infection (assuming Neisseria meningitidis) would seem to be rare in most modern developed nations.
In the US - https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/PDFs/pathogens-complete-list.pdf (missing Neisseria meningitidis)
The usual suspects for food poisoning:
https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html