Sad: Student had to have limbs αm:putαtєd after eating roommate’s leftover noodles

“But, when bacteria is present in the blood, the entire body’s blood vessels dilate, dropping then blood pressure, preventing oxygen from getting into the organs.”

He continued: “Little clots [start to] form everywhere, as they get lodged into small blood vessels blocking blood flow. As his hands and feet become cold, they are starved of oxygen.”

The problem with all of this – well another serious problem – is that the tissue that is starved of blood starts to turn necrotic. The whole effect is called Purpura fulminans.

He did stabilise, yet the tissue on his fingers developed gangrene, as did his legs down to his feet. He had to have parts of all 10 fingers amputated, as well as a bilateral below-knee amputations.

The bacteria that got into his food is known to spread through saliva.

It turns out his roommate had vomited after eating some of the meal the night before, unknown to JC.

After that, they discovered while he’d received his first meningococcal vaccine before middle school, he never had the booster shot recommended four years later when he was 16. Evidence suggests the food wasn’t good, which Dr Bernard describes as ‘a freak accident’.

However, ‘we’ll never know’ what caused the food to have that bacterium in it.