question: Last night before going to bed what I thought to be an insect bite suddenly flamed up.  It was extremely red, started to burn and later led to my muscles around the infected area to spasm and ache. the next morning the pain had spread to my entire leg, and therefore I went to the hospital.  The docter said that the infected hair folicle had led to blood poisoning.  There was already a small line running up my leg, only about 6cm long.  she put me on course of antibiotics. I just want to know if it is really possible to get blood poisoning from an infected hair follicle?