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Pauline Hall, of Boca Raton, developed a high fever and was hospitalized to determine the cause. Doctors figured out that she had an infection caused when the family cat nipped her on the ankle, and successfully treated it with antibiotics.
She was in the hospital for 10 days, then released temporarily to a nursing home to get her strength back, but a few days later was readmitted to the hospital with another high fever.
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Hall died seven months later after a long battle with at least three bacterial infections that developed in the health-care setting. She spent time in a hospital and a nursing home in Palm Beach County, and a long-term care hospital in Broward County.
