Sunday, 5 August 2018

PRO/AH/EDR> Capnocytophaga infection - USA: (WI) quadruple amputation

Other Human Disease -- United States
A 48-year-old man with a history of good health and who has spent his life around dogs was forced to have all of his limbs amputated after contracting a rare blood infection that likely came from his own pooch. The man of West Bend, WI landed in the emergency room last month [June 2018] with what he thought was the flu, Fox 6 Now reported.
"It hit him with a vengeance," his wife, told the news outlet. "Just bruising all over him. Looked like somebody beat him up with a baseball

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5946644&promed&0

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