Man loses nose, hands and feet to dogs and cats infections

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Man loses nose, hands and feet to dogs and cats infections

 The love for domestic dog and cat  may end as soon as possible over fear of diseases as man loses hands and feet.

An American man has had his hands and feet amputated due to complications caused by bacteria in dogs' and cats' saliva.

The man is diagnosed with a rare zoonotic disease usually found in the saliva of dogs and cats known as capnocytophaga canimorous.

These bacteria rarely make humans sick, but Manteufel's infection -- and how his body responded -- caused surgeons to amputate parts of his nose and limbs, including both hands and feet.


Greg Manteufel’s symptoms began with fever and vomiting, as if he had the flu. But by the following morning, he was delirious, and his temperature had soared.His wife rushed him to the hospital, a quick drive from their Wisconsin home. Once they arrived, Dawn Manteufel said she noticed bruises — several of them, all over his body — that weren’t there when they left their house just five minutes earlier. To Dawn, it was as if her husband had just been beaten with a baseball bat.
Within a week the man has lost his hand and feets to avoid spreading beyond manageable level.

Greg Manteufel suffered a rare blood infection after harmful bacteria from a dog’s saliva seeped into his bloodstream, causing sepsis, or blood poisoning from bacteria. The sepsis resulted in blood spots that looked like bruises all over his body, particularly on his chest and face. Doctors pumped him with antibiotics to stop the infection, his wife said, but clots blocked the flow of blood to his extremities, causing tissue and muscles to die.
The bacteria, called Capnocytophaga canimorsus, “just attacked him,” Dawn said, and it did so quickly and aggressively. To save his life, doctors had to cut his legs from the knee down, and then his hands.

The man who is lying almost lifeless on the bed begs the large number of doctors who have gathered his bed,checking his vital signs and asking him questions, to please do whatever they could to save his life.

He told the doctors, ‘Do what you have to do to keep me alive,’

His wife when asked about the situation ,she said" He’s in good spirits,he has lost but at peace that he must now live an entirely different life, sitting in a power wheelchair."

Capnocytophaga canimorsus

Capnocytophaga canimorsus is commonly transmitted by dog bites and is usually life-threatening to people who suffer from alcoholism or are asplenic, meaning their spleens don’t function normally. Symptoms typically worsen rapidly.

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