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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 31, 2018 15:30:22 GMT -5
Dog Saliva Infection Causes Man to Lose Several Body PartsA 48-year-old man with a history of good health and who has spent his life around dogs was forced to have several body parts amputated after contracting a rare blood infection that likely came from his own pit bull. Greg Manteufel (above), of West Bend, Wisconsin, landed in the emergency room last month with what he thought was the flu, Fox 6 Now reported. “It hit him with a vengeance,” Dawn Manteufel, his wife, told the news outlet. “Just bruising all over him. Looked like somebody beat him up with a baseball bat.”
Subsequent testing revealed Manteufel had contracted an infection from a bacteria identified as capnocytophaga, which is found in dog saliva. The bacteria can cause severe infections in humans with weakened immune systems and is spread through bites or close contact with infected dogs.
Patients infected with the bacteria may exhibit blisters around the bite wound, redness or swelling, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, headache and muscle and joint pain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), symptoms will typically appear within three to five days, but can take up to two weeks to present. Severe infections can be fatal within 72 hours after symptoms appear.
“This infection in his blood triggered a very severe response on his body,” Dr. Silvia Munoz-Price, an infectious disease specialist, said, and this is a chance dog owners take.
The infection caused Manteufel’s blood pressure to drop and the circulation to his limbs decreased, causing parts of his body to turn black – the same color as his pit bull (above).
Dawn Manteufel said that within a week, her husband’s legs were gone, followed by additional surgeries to remove portions of his hands and then half of both forearms. “Furthermore, all areas of Greg’s body and tissue was affected by the bacteria and the sepsis, the [doctors] say his nose will need extensive repairs, which means he will need plastic surgery to rebuild a new healthy nose,” a post on the family’s GoFundMe page said. “Greg is going to need several more surgeries, lots of time and his family by his side to get [through] this life-changing event.” She said the family is focused on what her husband has left, rather than what was taken away.
Source: Alexandria Hein, Fox News, July 31, 2018.
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Post by catherine on Jul 31, 2018 16:49:41 GMT -5
I have no sympathy for people who wallow around with damned dogs.
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Post by madeline on Jul 31, 2018 19:33:11 GMT -5
I have no sympathy for people who wallow around with damned dogs. |
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Post by Joanna on Aug 13, 2018 15:01:52 GMT -5
Wisconsin Woman Dies of Dog Saliva InfectionMILWAUKEE, Wis. – A 58-year-old woman’s death has been attributed to an infection from a dog lick, the same infection that is plaguing a man in West Bend.
Sharon Larson had just gotten a puppy and it nipped her, resulting in a minor nick. A day after taking the dog to the vet for a check-up, Mrs. Larson was rushed to the hospital. “I was told she could get struck by lightning four times and live, win the lottery twice,” said Dan Larson, her husband, “that’s how rare this is supposed to be.” Still in shock, he thought she had the flu. “General antibiotics that they put her on didn’t do anything,” he explained. Two days after being admitted to Wheaton Franciscan Hospital in Franklin, Sharon Larson was dead. “I feel like I got robbed. Lost my right arm. My best friend,” Larson added.
Doctors told Larson his wife tested positive for capnocytophaga, the bacteria found in the saliva of most dogs, cats and even some humans, which can have devastating consequences.
“I had no knowledge,” said Steven Larson, the woman’s son, said. He wants additional answers because there is no actual tracking of how such cases there have been in the U.S.
Earlier this month, Greg Manteufel of West Bend, developed a similar infection, resulting in the amputation of both hands and legs. Doctors believe the bacteria was transmitted to Manteufel when his dog, a black pit bull, licked an open wound.
“People think nothing of getting a simple dog bite,” Steven Larson continued. “But even something so simple … can go wrong.”
Source: WTMJ and CNN, August 10, 2018.
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Post by catherine on Aug 20, 2018 12:33:04 GMT -5
That old bitch looks like the wicked witch from "The Wizard of Oz." She should have been spending all that money she wasted on damned dogs on a nose job. If she had, she wouldn't be dead.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Aug 1, 2019 7:24:46 GMT -5
The Price of Dog Licks: Woman Loses Hands, LegsMarie Trainer (above) of Canton, Ohio, awakened from a 10-day coma without her hands and legs. She was hospitalized 80 days and had eight surgical procedures after contracting capnocytophaga, a flesh-eating bacterial infection found in dog saliva.
“When I opened my eyes I didn’t know where I was,” Marie said. “Then I found out everything. Being in a coma for 10 days – having this thing. My dog licked me … my dogs lick me all the time. It was very hard to find out that they had to remove my legs and my arms … very hard to cope with,” she continued, holding back tears.
Trainer had a small scratch on her arm, but when she developed nausea, back pain and fever, she didn’t consider her symptoms might be related to the minor wound. Instead, she assumed she had a severe case of the flu until her temperature began to fluctuate. “Her temperature went up then went down to about 93 degrees, that’s when we rushed her to the hospital,” Matthew Trainer (above), her husband, told reporters.
Aultman Hospital’s critical care team commenced aggressive treatment, but within hours, Mrs. Trainer developed sepsis, which leads to tissue damage, organ failure and death. “So we were getting new symptoms and worsening symptoms very rapidly,” said Gina Premier, Marie’s step-daughter, a nurse practitioner. Marie was placed in a medically-induced coma as her limbs became necrotic, gangrene set in and blood cultures confirmed the capnocytophaga diagnosis.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, capnocytophaga is a bacteria that lives in the mouths of dogs and is spread to people through bites and scratches. In Marie’s case, her team of doctors believe her two dogs likely licked the small scrape on her arm.
It’s a myth that the mouths of dogs are cleaner than those of human beings, Dr. Margaret Kobe, Medical Director of Infectious Disease at Aultman, told Fox8. Capnocytophaga is “fairly common in the oral flora or the mouth of a dog and it can be transmitted through a bite or sometimes just contact with saliva,” she said. “That organism is very virulent. It has the ability to induce your immune system to do some pretty horrible things. If you get bit by a dog,” she continued, “you definitely need to go on antibiotics and to wash your hands when playing with a dog, especially with an open cut.” She also emphasized the importance of telling the doctor you have pets when seeking medical attention.
The disease causes multiple blood clots that cut off the blood supply, causing gangrene and necrosis. In Marie Trainer’s case, doctors did their best to remove as many blood clots as possible, but it was too late to save her limbs. Without the amputations, she would have died. “It was so rapid in progression … there was nothing they could do,” her step-daughter explained.
Marie Trainer’s life will never be the same: She was a beautician, who owned her own salon, and now she is totally disabled. Her medical bills are massive and she will require prosthetic limbs and extensive rehabilitation. But despite her life-altering circumstances, she asked her doctors if she could see her two dogs during her healing process and the animals were brought to Aultman Hospital for a visit. “They brought them here two times at the hospital so I can see them and that just put the biggest smile on my face,” she gushed, adding that she can’t wait to be reunited with her dogs.
Sources: Robyn Merrett, People, August 1, 2019, and Suzanne Stratford, WJW, July 31, 2019.
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Post by madeline on Aug 1, 2019 13:53:43 GMT -5
What the hell is wrong with dog freaks?! The fool's immune system is compromised from the sepsis and long hospitalization, she's totally disabled, owes probably hundreds of thousands in medical bills and all she can think of is being reunited with her damned dogs. People who wallow around with dogs and let the filthy beasts lick and slobber all over them are disgusting.
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Post by jason on Aug 2, 2019 17:06:47 GMT -5
There are men who are dog-crazy, like that stupid bastard in the article above who had his legs and arms amputated, but it's more prevalent among women. Any man who dates or marries a dog-crazy woman needs to have his head examined. Their homes smell worse than a freaking bloated corpse in the July sun, there's hair and dog slobber all over the place, and any guy who thinks that dog-freak women don't engage in some form of sexual activity with their freaking dogs doesn't have the sense God promised a billy goat.
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