1.   At the same time, fever can make us worse in cases of widespread blood infection, or sepsis.

2.   Comedian Les Dawson is recovering at home after being discharged from hospital in Preston where he was being treated for a blood infection after a prostate operation.

3.   This particular bug causes meningitis about two-thirds of the time and causes another blood infection about a third of the time.

4.   A blood infection caused her leg to swell and turn blue-green.

5.   A potentially fatal blood infection soon halted the alternative treatments.

6.   For example, delirious patients with blood infections may be prescribed anti-psychotics instead of the antibiotics they desperately need.

7.   Gov. Christie Whitman said Tuesday that she is being treated with antibiotics for what her doctor believes is a tick-borne blood infection that could be Lyme disease.

8.   In addition to causing miscarriages and stillbirths, listeria can cause fatal blood infections and meningitis.

9.   In the days before penicillin, four of every five people who contracted staph blood infections died.

10.   Islanders goaltender Jamie McLennan remains in a Lethbridge, Alberta, hospital after contracting a blood infection related to meningitis.