[Polybius]

I thought that Jim Henson died from Group A beta hemolytic strep that was well advanced into a necrotic pneumonia before he sought treatment.

See Post 2.

Once you have an infection necrotizing your lung, you are pretty much guaranteed to have sepsis. All "sepsis" means is that the bacteria entered the bloodstream and the blodstream became infected.

The reporter is simply taking a secondary complication of any infectious process and sensationalizing it into the Killer Disease of the Month.

[nuconvert]

Well, "disease of the month" is a little flip.
Sepsis is a serious problem and not just as a secondary infection to another disease process, but also iatrogenic induced sepsis.

[armymarinemom]

That was my point. It was an aggressive strain of group A well advanced. Not just the resulting sepsis. A large issue was also made about Mr. Henson when the press was talking about flesh eating bacteria. Both are true but no a big surprise especially if you have seen how destructive an aggressive case of group A can be. It was a rare aggressive infection. Not new news but just a spin.

[Jim Noble]

The reporter is simply taking a secondary complication of any infectious process and sensationalizing it into the Killer Disease of the Month.

Actually, the reporter is taking a press release from the manufacturer of activated Protein C (Xigris), and running it as a news story because she is too lazy to research the topic.