{"id":84421,"date":"2018-11-03T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/college-athlete-dies-of-rare-bacterial-illness-called-forgotten-disease"},"modified":"2018-11-03T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:42:21","slug":"college-athlete-dies-of-rare-bacterial-illness-called-forgotten-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/college-athlete-dies-of-rare-bacterial-illness-called-forgotten-disease","title":{"rendered":"College Athlete Dies of Rare Bacterial Illness Called \u2018Forgotten Disease\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/college-athlete-dies-of-rare-bacterial-illness-called-forgotten-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A college student-athlete in Kansas died suddenly from a rare bacterial infection after thinking her symptoms were due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62447-tonsils.html\">tonsillitis<\/a>, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, Samantha Scott, was a top coxswain on the rowing team at Kansas State University, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kstatesports.com\/news\/2018\/10\/28\/rowing-k-state-mourns-the-passing-of-samantha-scott.aspx\">statement from the university<\/a>. But about two weeks ago, she started to feel unwell.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, it was thought that Scott had tonsillitis, or inflammation of the tonsils, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/2018\/10\/31\/college-athlete-from-colorado-dies-suddenly-from-rare-disease\/\">local news outlet KDVR<\/a>. Tonsillitis can cause symptoms such as sore throat, fever and pain when swallowing. But Scott had actually developed an illness called Lemierre syndrome, a condition that\u2019s so rare it was referred to as \u201call-but-forgotten disease\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajronline.org\/doi\/full\/10.2214\/AJR.06.0096\">2006 report<\/a> of a similar case. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37919-oddest-medical-case-reports.html\">27 Oddest Medical Cases<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64004-college-student-dies-lemierre-syndrome.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64004-college-student-dies-lemierre-syndrome.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college student-athlete in Kansas died suddenly from a rare bacterial infection after thinking her symptoms were due to tonsillitis, according to news reports. The 23-year-old, Samantha Scott, was a top coxswain on the rowing team at Kansas State University, according to a statement from the university. But about two weeks ago, she started to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}