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An undetected drug allegedly passed around at a music festival in Tampa, Florida killed two young people and sickened 57 others, with one attendee describing the concert as "really uncontrolled." Meanwhile, police are looking into the causes of death.
So far, Florida residents Katie Bermudez of Kissimmee, and Alex Haynes of Melbourne are the only two confirmed deaths. Both were rushed from the Sunset Music Festival in Tampa to a hospital over the weekend.
Haynes, 22, was hospitalized on Saturday, the first day of the festival, and was pronounced dead on Sunday. Bermudez, 21, died on Monday, the day after she was hospitalized, Tampa Police spokesman Steve Hegarty said.
"The social worker said, 'Your daughter Katie is on a ventilator. You need to get to the hospital,'" Nancy Bermudez
told Fox affiliate WTVT, recalling a 3am phone call from St. Joseph's Hospital.
Bermudez's symptoms included high fever and brain swelling, but doctors couldn't find a way to save her.
"We don't know [what happened]... They have an autopsy going on," her mother Nancy said. "The hospital didn't know; they were bewildered with how to treat this."
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