DENVER (AP) - Charles Palmer, a hardy 71-year-old former Marine and Vietnam veteran, said the train cockatiels "Semper connection" and "whatcha doin ', man it?"
He also loves fruit - melon, especially lunch.
"He never had a sick, said:" His wife, Tammie.
Colorado Springs man to eat, and in mid-August to buy the melon, his wife said. Within a few days, he overcame unbearable headache. The next morning, he was gripped very weak and dry heaves, his wife recalled.
"I started slapping his face and said, 'You talk to me," but he can not, "she said.
She called 911. In the hospital, she said, he was diagnosed with listeriosis outbreak caused by 19 states, has killed at least 15 sick at least 84 strain.
Palmer's story is that one day led many pathogens, especially the elderly and those plagued with compromised immune systems of normal life and future suffering symptoms, even death, to share. It can hatch two months ago due to illness sets in. As long as
Symptoms include fever, muscle pain, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal problems.
Health officials did not identify the victims, but the Associated Press filed five lawsuits have been reached, said the loved one was sent off the strains of Listeria monocytogenes sick family.
William Thomas Beach Mustang, Oklahoma, is a feisty, interesting people, had been thrown a community center, as he struggles to get through the political playing dominoes in his six daughters said.
Frederick recalled: "Debbie" Dad hit him with a smile. "He put his politics very, very seriously."
In the doctor's visit on June 8, his 87th birthday on the beach declared: "Today is my birthday, I want a sucker," Frederick said. Medical staff bound his three suction cups with ribbon.
In late August, down the beach and can not get up. His face was red and swollen, his breathing difficulties. Frederick said he was hospitalized and sent home the next day, when his breathing under control.
"He and the nurse a small circle dance, because he is so happy to go home," she said.
On September 1, he 85-year-old wife, Monette, found him unresponsive on the floor;, he was brought back to the hospital, died the same day. A few days later, Oklahoma State and federal health officials linked his illness, listeria outbreak, Frederick said. He has been eating cantaloupe weeks.
Herbert Littleton, Colorado suburb of Denver, the U.S. Geological Survey Stevens is a retired engineer. 84, he can walk unassisted, and with his wife to enjoy a concert, although there have been heart surgery 21 years ago, and oxygen.
August 22, after 10 days, from the local grocery store to eat cantaloupe, Stevens of weakness and nausea. He was trembling and shivering, said his daughter, Jeni Exley. In the hospital, his temperature was 102.7 and he immediately put antibiotics.
A month later, he was a skilled nursing center. Exley said his spirit are good, although his weak, slept a lot.
It is too early to say, his prognosis, his daughter said, but he may need walkers, may lose its independence.
"How much is a 84-year-old man's strength came back after a serious infection?" Exley said.
Clarence Douglas Wells Catonsville, Maryland, is a retired Department of Defense printer, who likes to play cards when he used chips pistachio.
"He is terrible, playing poker," his daughter, Donna Wells Lloyd said with a smile. "He did a poker face."
Well, a 87-year-old widower, living with her husband Lloyd and outside of Baltimore in Catonsville. He was a quiet person's sense of humor, his daughter said.
Lloyd said he was hospitalized on August 25, he retained so much fluid, he was about nine pounds in three days. When she visited him, he did not complain of discomfort, but she suspected he might have been back.
"He hated burden to anyone," she said.
August 31, he participated in a bad direction. Lloyd's time to reach his room, he was intubated, although he was calm, he was grabbing the tube, trying to remove it. When he grew calm, Lloyd dashed home to change clothes. She can leave her house before the hospital staff called and said his heart had stopped, the doctors tried to revive him. He died that day.


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