Is septicemia spreadable? especially to teenagers ?

my partners nephew is only one years old and is very is, hospital saying he has speticemia. concerned about it being contageous. i dont want to spread the disease to my teenage sister and my family. Any one help?

It can be but if you are all healthy with a healthy immune system it probably won't spread. Prophyactic antibiotics should be given to close contacts if pneumococcus, meningococcus, and haemophilus are present, just to be safe. I hope that the lil guy is ok.

Septicemia is an infection in the bloodstream. It is not contagious. But, depending on the site of initial infection, such as a skin wound or abscess, it could possibly cause colonization of another host.

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