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	My grandson got bitten by a mosquito just over a week ago. He got blood poisoning and could hardly walk. How could that have happened? Bert, Benfleet
	I think there what was happening was the mosquito was providing a route of entry to a bacterial infection. It was probably Staphylococcus aureus or strep can sometimes do that.
	May 2008

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