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| Shellfish Infection Kills Chesco Man, DNC Construction Update, FOP President Criticizes Clinton |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 07/21/16 1:55 am | updated: 07/21/16 1:55 am |
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A Chester County man has died of a rare infection associated with shellfish. Early last week, Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce President Jerome Rodio was helping a man with a crab trap on the Chesapeake when he cut his arm, infecting it with vibrio vulnificus, an organism associated with shellfish. The 75-year-old former Philadelphia police officer died on Thursday. Dr. Neil Fishman, an infectious disease specialist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, says it's rarely fatal. Fishman says a sign that trouble may be coming is a boil-like sore. In that case, he says, seek medical help.
Final construction is underway around the Wells Fargo Center for the Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday in Philadelphia. The first thing you notice is the eight-foot Pope-style black security fencing that rings the Wells Fargo Center property, including XFINITY Live. That fencing is set up along stretches of the north side of Pattison Avenue as well, along the Citizens Bank Park lot. The Wells Fargo parking area near Lincoln Financial Field has been taken over by a series of huge media tents for the thousands of journalists who will cover next week’s convention. And crews are still erecting walkways and awnings for security screening areas onsite.
John McNesby, the head of the Fraternal Order of Police in Philadelphia, put out a scathing letter, criticizing the Clinton campaign for not including widows and family members of police officers killed in the line of duty. He used the words "shocked" and "saddened." McNesby is upset with the list of Tuesday night speakers which includes the mothers of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown, New York resident Eric Garner and Sandra Bland. All three died during an interaction with police. The three deaths prompted public protests of police officers. McNesby said in the letter: "It is sad that to win an election, Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country." The Clinton campaign says that former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey will speak. Hillary Clinton’s Pennsylvania communications director said in a statement: "As Hillary Clinton has said, we need to support heroic police officers who put their lives on the line every day as well as listen to the voices of mothers who have lost their children. We look forward to highlighting the courageous efforts of law enforcement with speakers at our convention, including from Pennsylvania, and praising their work to keep our communities safe,†said Stephanie Formas, Hillary for America, PA Communications Director. Joe Sweeney, a former NYPD Detective, who rescued people on 9/11, will also speak to the delegates.
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