Revealing Egypt's Buried Treasures

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[HonkeytonkMan]

Haven't seen that picture Carnarvon, Victim of misquito bite (myth)

Probably passed with complications associated with Shingles.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...George_Edward_Stanhope_Molyneux_Herbert00.jpg

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/george-herbert-5th-earl-of-carnarvon-1.jpg

Notice the rash below his left eye, in this picture. That is varicella-zoster. Shingles/Chicken Pox. My guess is he probably never had chicken pox as a child and was hit hard.

Pretty sure that was the last photo taken a couple days before his passing.

 

[Red-Coat]

Haven't seen that picture Carnarvon, Victim of misquito bite (myth)

Probably passed with complications associated with Shingles.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...George_Edward_Stanhope_Molyneux_Herbert00.jpg

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/george-herbert-5th-earl-of-carnarvon-1.jpg

Notice the rash below his left eye, in this picture. That is varicella-zoster. Shingles/Chicken Pox. My guess is he probably never had chicken pox as a child and was hit hard.

Pretty sure that was the last photo taken a couple days before his passing.

Carnarvon's cause of death was recorded as “pneumonia supervening on [facial] erysipelas”. The pneumonia was one of several complications arising from an invasive streptococcal infection of the skin and underlying tissue that ultimately led to multi-organ failure. The Lancet medical journal reported that he had long been in ill health, was prone to frequent and severe lung infections, and had a weak immune system, such that even an attack of acute bronchitis would likely have killed him. To what extent his death was related to the infected mosquito bite is not known.

The picture you linked to is cropped from a shot of the Earl enjoying a day at the races in June 1921, some two years before his death.

 

[HonkeytonkMan]

Interesting,I don't think there was a mosquito bite though. Like you said that picture was taken 2 years prior to the mosquito bite. I think he most likely had a flare up of Shingles was most likely the final blow.

one of the first signs of chicken pox/shingles is a painfull puss filled flare up under the left or right eye.

The "Mosquito Bite": is just nonsense






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[Red-Coat]

Interesting,I don't think there was a mosquito bite though. Like you said that picture was taken 2 years prior to the mosquito bite. I think he most likely had a flare up of Shingles was most likely the final blow.

one of the first signs of chicken pox/shingles is a painfull puss filled flare up under the left or right eye.

The "Mosquito Bite": is just nonsense

Howard Carter’s journal makes first mention of Carnarvon being taken ill in March 1923. It’s well documented that he was diagnosed with “erysipelas and streptococcic blood poisoning” on 17th March. It’s also documented that he was bitten on the cheek by a mosquito (presumed, but an insect bite nevertheless) around the same time while visiting Carter in Thebes; that he carelessly nicked the inflamed bite with a cut-throat razor while shaving; and that it subsequently became infected.

What cannot be said with certainty is whether the infected bite was causative of the tissue infection and blood poisoning, contributory to it, or coincidental and unrelated.

What can be said is that erysipelas in humans is usually caused by invasive streptococcal hemolitic bacteria such as Streptococcus pyogenes; that minor cuts and insect bites are common points of entry for the infection; and that facial tissue is one of the most vulnerable areas.



Carnarvon remained ill until his death on 5th April in Cairo. The medical journal the Lancet reported that he was in severe pain, had a high fever, pneumonia in both lungs, and eventually succumbed to heart and respiratory failure. Carnarvon’s weak immune system was well-known and implicitly linked to his inability to fight off the infection, which the Lancet considered to be likely related to the infected bite.