For three months, 31-year-old Crystal Villegas, from Brownsville, has been fighting for her life. She’s been recovering in the ICU at Valley Baptist Hospital in Harlingen from a potentially deadly fungal meningitis infection.
HARLINGEN, Texas — For three months, 31-year-old Crystal Villegas, from Brownsville, has been fighting for her life. She’s been recovering in the ICU at Valley Baptist Hospital in Harlingen from a potentially deadly fungal meningitis infection.Crystal Villegas, 31, has been recovering for three months after contracting a fungal meningitis infection at a private clinic in Matamoros, Mexico
“There’s always positive energy coming from her and to see her in this state, seeing her like this, it’s heartbreaking,” Tapia said. “I wish all this was just a nightmare that we can just wake up from and go back to the day before the surgery and somehow, some way convince her not to go,” Tapia said. Every year more than 1 million Americans travel to Mexico for cheap cosmetic procedures in private clinics where safety protocols are often deficient. In May, the CDC and the U.S. consulate in Matamoros issued a level 2 travel warning asking Americans to avoid procedures with epidurals due to the meningitis outbreak.
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