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According to WHO, sepsis is estimated to affect more than 30 million people around the world annually, causing up to 6 million deaths, with the burden likely highest in low- and middle-income countries.

Sepsis arises when in combating an infection, the immune system damages a persons’ own tissues and organs. This can lead to organ failure, and ultimately, death. Sepsis can escalate in minutes and has a staggering mortality rate.

One week Tatiana Chiprez Vargas was living the life of her dreams, honeymooning in Honolulu and returning home to Stockton to begin a new job at a nonprofit child-care center.

On June 7, 2017, her last name changed to Vargas. But right after her honeymoon, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus suddenly took her health and her hope for the future.