ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal health agency has found the University of New Mexico Hospital to be one of the worst in the country for sepsis after several patients developed the blood...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A resolution to ask the state health department to establish standard protocols for detecting sepsis has passed the Rhode Island House of Representatives.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Parents of children who have died of sepsis in Rhode Island are asking the state to establish standard protocols for detecting the condition.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — When Andrew Kaminski went to the doctor in 2014 with flu-like symptoms, the doctor told him they couldn't find anything wrong and to go home and rest.

Within 48 hours, the Kansas City, Kansas, man was hurried to the emergency room with extreme pain on the right side of his body.

What followed was a 45-day hospital stay. Kaminski was unconscious for the first eight days and underwent 10 surgeries.

CHICAGO (AP) — Deadly blood infections persist in Illinois' understaffed nursing homes, according to a joint news investigation.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine students entering seventh and twelfth grade must now prove they are vaccinated against meningococcal disease.

The new law requires students to get the meningococcal vaccine starting this school year. All students entering seventh grade must receive one dose, while two doses are required for students entering their senior year.

Meningococcal vaccines are a school requirement in more than 20 states. The law also applies to transfer students.

DORA, Ala. (AP) — A woman charged with caring for an elderly Alabama man has been arrested in connection to his death.

News outlets report 58-year-old Sharon Kay Lewis was charged Wednesday with manslaughter and elderly abuse and neglect in the death of James Johnson Woods. Charging documents say Woods died last September from sepsis, malnutrition and pneumonia.

HONOLULU (AP) — A woman who lost both her kidneys when she went to an Army hospital for the birth of her third child has been awarded $24.7 million.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin S.C. Chang found that Marites Campano was severely and permanently injured as a result of sepsis caused by a bacterial infection that was not timely diagnosed or treated.

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island high school soccer player who suddenly fell ill last month and developed a dangerous blood infection has died.

The principal of Toll Gate High School in Warwick said in an email to parents that 16-year-old junior goalkeeper Gianna Cirella died at the hospital Wednesday night.

Gianna, the daughter of East Greenwich Deputy Police Chief Stanley Cirella, developed a sore throat at practice on Oct. 13, which quickly led to pneumonia and sepsis.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's top health official and the state's hospitals are spreading the word about the dangers posed by sepsis.

Interim state health commissioner Pam Pontones is scheduled to join Indiana Hospital Association members and others at a Wednesday event in Indianapolis to educate the public about the potentially fatal condition.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Teachers in New York state are being encouraged to teach students of all ages how to prevent sepsis.

Sepsis strikes more than 1.5 million people in the United States a year and kills more than 250,000, but many don't know what it is. Once misleadingly called blood poisoning, sepsis occurs when the body goes into overdrive while fighting an infection, injuring its own tissue.

TALAHINA, Okla. (AP) — Four staff members have resigned from a southeastern Oklahoma veterans facility rather than face the possibility of getting fired, after a resident was found to have maggots in a wound.

Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs executive director Myles Deering said the maggots were discovered while the patient was alive at the facility in Talahina, about 130 miles southeast of Tulsa. Deering said the maggots were not the cause of his death.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A fourth lawsuit has been filed blaming the death of an organ transplant patient on a mold outbreak at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals.

The latest was filed by the family of Daniel Krieg, 56, of St. Marys, Elk County, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review first reported Wednesday. Krieg died July 9 at UPMC Montefiore hospital.

DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit county already facing a highly publicized lawsuit over the death of a jail inmate is being sued again in a separate death of a woman who had an infection that shut down her organs.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — An autopsy report for a transplant patient who contracted a fungal infection while at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center indicates he suffered from the same type of mold linked to other deaths.