the cdc declared sepsis a medical emergency that kills 258,000 people a year nationally. it is difficult to diagnosis, and, kennedy health, they have instituted a program in its three hospitals that is dramatically reduced its sepsis death rate. >> i walk in here. >> reporter: trip to kennedy hospital in cherry hill that saved michael burger's life. >> it started from a paper cut. >> reporter: infectious from a cut on his hand turned into sepsis, and three week medically induced coma. >> scared the hell out of he. i can't believe that was me. >> reporter: michael says he never knew much about sepsis often triggered by a flesh eating bacteria that can cause organ failure. >> they said i was circling drain, 50/50 shot of living. >> reporter: fortunately michael was treated at kennedy health which has a program that reduced deaths from sepsis. it can be trick toy diagnosis and is often missed, and, the test for it and symptoms can vary. >> the ultimate goal, it is to recognize, treat it and minimize side effects a patient may have of sepsis. it doesn't row gress. >> reporter

ilia: lo llaman el asesino silencioso, la sepsis y ataca a los mÁs pequeÑos ¿cÓmo prevenirla? o en los niÑos menores de un aÑo, se pueden presentar con fiebre, letargia, los nenes estÁn inconsolables. reportera: alrededor de 40.000 niÑos son diagnosticados con sepsis, el propiedades es que puede ser difÍcil de diagnsticar y se puede confundir con otras enfermedades en etapa temprana. >> tenemos que tratar de diagnosticar sepsis ante que su la enfermedad progrese. mÁs del 70% de los caso de sepsis ocurre en las enfermedadess como un sistema inmune o un tipo de infecciÓn. reportera: por ello es muy importante actuar con rapidez para que el niÑo reciba atenciÓn mÉdica, si lo necesita. >> la sepsis puede tener sÍntoma mÁs inespecÍficos, pueden tener fieb fiebres, escalofrÍos. es toda la informaciÓn, regresamos a los estudios. ♪ julio: ahora vamos a disfrutar de las mejores salva jugada de la semana. ♪ en el juego en que atlanta venciÓ a los mets de new york. ♪ nÚmero 4: nos llega de la liga premier inglesa, aprovecha aun mÁs rechazo de balÓn para sdpostarla en la canasta y habÍa l

but once sepsis sets in, early treatment is critical. sepsis can cause tissue damage, organ failure and death. it's a leading cause of death among children -- for them, the risk of death increases for every hour of delay in treatment. some 40-thousand children are diagnosed with sepsis each year. disability. the trouble is, sepsis can be difficult to diagnose and can be confused with other conditions in its early stages. the c-d-c says it's important to educate people about infection prevention. always clean cuts and scrapes and maintain good hygiene. it's also important to know the signs and symptoms of sepsis, so you can act quickly to get medical care if you need it. those signs are: -shivering, accompanied -extreme pain or discomfort -clammy or discolored skin -confusion or disorientation -shortness of breath -and a high heart rate there's lots more information on the c-d-c's website. for today's health minute, i'm kim hutcherson. trt oc today, a native american group of students at the university of iowa will protest a pipeline. mea

but once sepsis sets in, early treatment is critical. sepsis can cause tissue damage, organ failure and death. it's a leading cause of death among children -- for them, the risk of death increases for every hour of delay in treatment. diagnosed with sepsis each year. 45-hundred die and 38-percent are left with a lifelong disability. the trouble is, sepsis can be difficult to diagnose and can be confused with other conditions in its early stages. the c-d-c says it's important to educate people about infection prevention. always clean cuts and scrapes and maintain good hygiene. it's also important to know the signs and symptoms of sepsis, so you can act quickly to get medical care if you need it. those signs are: -shivering, acc by fever or feeling very cold. -extreme pain or discomfort -clammy or discolored skin -confusion or disorientation -shortness of breath -and a high heart rate there's lots more information on the c-d-c's website. for today's health minute, i'm kim hutcherson. trt oc a new membership organization is giving a voice t

. >>> every year 250,000 people lose their live to sepsis, an infection of the blood often following a medical procedure that can be mistaken for the flu symptoms. a colorado woman who nearly lost her life to sepsis is now she spoke with 9news reporter christine noel. >> reporter: for 4 1/2 decades -- >> i'm big into running and skiing. >> reporter: -- life as christine lance knew it was full, happy, a mother of three boys. >> we're very active. we are a big skiing family. >> reporter: -- she was always on the go always moving, that is, until three years ago. >> i started to feel a little stopped her in her tracks. in november, 2013 christine had a routine procedure done. it was successful. a few weeks later she started feeling sick. >> i went to see the doctor and was diagnosed with the flu. >> reporter: four days later christine's health took a turn for the worse. >> completely down and out and was diagnosed with septic shock. >> reporter: septic shock, a result of sepsis, an infection in the bloodstream that had spread through her entire body. her organs were shutting down. >> she

actual >>> when a mother of five in north carolina needed limbs amputated after barely surviving sepsis, she was told she wasn't eligible for disability payments. it came down to her decision to leave the workforce more than a decade ago to be a >> it's kind of crazy. >> oh, my gosh! >> i'm not going to lie. >> it's my turn. >> reporter: there are five kids -- >> come on, ben. >> reporter: mom, christine, spent more than a decade as a stay at home mom. her husband got a full grasp on what that meant. >> i had no idea. her. >> reporter: he had to bring in help after kristin almost died three years ago. >> my mom was laying down on the floor, and we had to call the ambulance. >> reporter: she had the flu, that turned into sepsis and doctors had to amputate one leg, foot of another and one arm. an attorney helped them apply for social security benefits. he said he was blind sided the government denied her claims. >> this is one of those situations you shake your head and go, this is just wrong. >> reporter: kristen spent nine years working before deciding to stay at home with the kids, but

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a lot of people don't know what sepsis is. but it affects over one million people. what they -- what happened with him is they had to put him in a medically induced coma. your body is trying to fight the bacteria, and when it does that it causes inflammation in the good parts of your body. so you start to lose the lung function, they can't breath anymore and exchange oxygen. this their ced anies shut down -- kidneys shut down. and i have people die this way. it's something that once that cascade begins sometimes it's hard to reverse. what they said here which is something i hope happens more and more places is they have a team approach, and they try to then take care of that person. >> you would go symptoms get help immediately. >> it's a tough one. fever, low blood pressure. high heart rate. >> thank you, dr. joey. we're going to send it over to >> we're going to tell people? just kidding. the bucks get ready for the broncos this week and their quarterback who is a rising star now in the nfl. but the bucks have inside information from a college teammate. plus tim t

in other -- but columns one and five are, turns out, results are driven by the top five percent of sepsistracks where the population -- total population more than doubles. so we exclude the extremely fast-growing, likely outlying census tracks with new development, we find the other 95% that we -- and also with median regression we find that immigrant arrivals are associated with absolute decreases in native populations, especially white populations. so now let unbundle the results. is it the foreignness of immigrants that causes this segregation and the answer to that in short is, no. we test by different source of where immigrants are coming from, and the results are all over the place. there's no consistency negative but then we also sort immigrants by educational achievements and particularly dropouts, and we also look at -- so we look at dropout rates and look at ethnicity and race and these results are very much driven by ethnicity and race of immigrants, african-americans status in a black -- very large negatives, nonwhite immigration is positive. so, the results are -- most import

inner east bay, mid-70s toward the south bay. 79 morgan hill. 72 redwood city. 64 in sepsis,.e the aloha polynesian festival. comic con. a lot going on. bilbray has a nice festival. bring along the extra layer because it will be cool in the evening hours. temperatures remaining mild as we get into the 2nd part of the we can. temperatures won't change a lot, it looks like a near repeat for sunday. we will get back to her mother on monday, hopefully have the day off. temperatures in the mid-to upper 80s, low to mid-70s in the bay. a warming trend will continue tuesday and wednesday, pleasant weather. we haven't had to deal whole lot with wildlife fires. >> if you don't like it, sleeping. >> we can sleep in? >> not you. everyone else sleeping. >> lots to do and if you want to hang out with superheroes maybe some comic book characters call you can do that as well. san francisco comic con is under way. we're going to have a live preview for you of what fans can expect this weekend. that is coming up in 20 minutes. >>> the fda raising red flag in certain antibacterial soaps and body

we had elderly residents with internal breeding or sepsis or apparent heart attacks. we had an intants -- infant baby boy struggling to breathe. just this past month we think, oh, summertime, august, good weather. this was a bad month for king cove. no fewer than four medevacs have been carried out. one was an elderly woman who arrived at the medical clinic with a hip fracture and she needed to be medevaced to anchorage but had to wait for more than 40 hours because the heavy fog that was on the ground just would not lift. so that's what's happening in king cove without a life saving road and i know, mr. president, that king cove, alaska, is a long way from where we are here. many in this chamber, most in this chamber will never go there. most people in america will never go there but as remote as they are, as small as this community is, i would remind my colleagues that this is still an american community. these are americans. these are people who deserve to have our help and it's our job to help assist them and they're not asking for much. so, mr. president, i will