The death of a student at the University of Kansas, the United States, after a rare bacterial infection in late October, a state of shock among her colleagues and professor.
Samantha Scott, 23, began to have symptoms of inflammation two weeks before death, when he thought it was due to tonsillitis. But in fact, she had Lymer syndrome, a rare bacterial infection that can spread to the blood.
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, Scott suffered from symptoms of sore throat, fever and swelling, at a time when the infection was spread deadly through her fibromyalgia.
"Samantha was a great leader and character and was loved by all her teammates and had a great influence on our team both inside and outside the water," said Patrick Sweeney, Scott's assistant, who was in her final year at the School of Architecture.
"We are still in shock, and we will continue to keep her family in our thoughts and prayers," the newspaper quoted Sweeney as saying.
Although the condition of the architectural student seems to be poorly understood by doctors, once properly diagnosed, it can be effectively treated with intravenous antibiotics, but unfortunately, when doctors discovered the disease, it was too late.
