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Simon's Story: On the morning of April 16, 2004, Simon, a 15-month-old child who had been recovering from a cold, awoke very upset with a high fever. His parents took him to the emergency room where doctors ran the standard tests (chest x-ray, oxygen-level), and speculated that he could be asthmatic. He was discharged at 1:30 PM. Once home, Simon began vomiting, became cold to the touch, and his lips turned blue. His nostrils were also flaring, and he was breathing very heavily. His parents called an ambulance, and he was rushed to the hospital again. He was diagnosed with an infection and sent to the intensive care unit where he soon fell into a septic coma. The doctors could not diagnose Simon's infection, and all of the treatments they tried failed. On April 17, 2004, Simon was pronounced dead at 12:45 p.m. (less than 24 hours from the initial hospital visit), without a precise cause of death. Two months later, the autopsy confirmed that Simon died from "methicillin-res