YARMOUTH – The Yarmouth Senior Center will host a presentation on sepsis next month.
Dr. Patrick Cahill, who is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, will discuss the illness which kills about 270,000 Americans every year and effects nearly 1.7 million.
Sepsis is caused by any kind of infection, including a cut, pneumonia or urinary tract infections.
Anyone can get sepsis, but older individuals are most at risk.
The presentation is Friday, January 11 at 1:30 p.m.