In case you don't know, Honolulu has been flooding for a while now. One storm caused a sewage pipe to break in Waikiki. The city dumped the sewage into the Ala Wai Canal that surrounds Waikiki and it went straight into the harbor and ocean. At it's worst, bacterial levels were at over 2000% of regular levels. This poor soul fell into that soup.
The Honolulu AdvertiserBacterial infection claims man's life
Advertiser Staff
The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office has determined that Oliver Johnson died of multi-system organ failure due to septic shock, following a plunge into the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor last week.
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Johnson had been battling a
massive bacterial infection since he fell or was pushed into the sewage-tainted harbor a week ago. He died about 9:15 last night at The Queen's Medical Center, the city Department of the Medical Examiner said this morning.
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Johnson initially said he had fallen into the harbor Friday night but later indicated he was involved in a fight aboard a boat at the harbor and was pushed or thrown into the harbor, which had been contaminated by raw sewage when the city diverted an estimated
48 million gallons of untreated effluent into the Ala Wai Canal after a sewer main burst in Waikiki. City workers dumped the raw sewage into the canal to keep it from backing up into Waikiki apartments and hotel rooms, Mayor Mufi Hannemann has said.
Health experts are split in their opinions as to whether or to what extent Johnson's fall into the polluted water may have led to the bacterial infection that caused or contributed to his death.
Health experts are split? You're kidding? Probably not a 50/50 split, wouldn't you guess?
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