Discovery Cove
- On January 29, 2009, a 59-year-old man from Sale, Greater Manchester, England, died having cut his toe on coral while swimming with fish. The victim, a hemophiliac, was diagnosed with septic shock and organ failure, and doctors amputated both legs below the knee to stay infections. The coroner ruled the death "accidental", due to group B streptococcal septicaemia.
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“The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.”
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