A woman from Wisconsin got scratched and contracted a terrible disease: all her fingers and leg were amputated

Alesia Kennen, a mother of three sons from Rice Lake, Wisconsin, has been struggling with a terrible disease - streptococcus for several years. The cause of the infection was an accidental scratch she received after unsuccessfully falling on the carpet. Writes about this Fox9. Some time after receiving a scratch ...

Deadly virus: a woman who kissed a dog amputated all limbs

Ohio resident Marie Trainer lost her feet and hands after kissing her dog. The woman contracted a severe form of sepsis from a pet. Vesti writes about this. Marie Trainer returned home from vacation, and two days later she felt ...

476 people in the US contract intestinal infection from McDonald's salads

The US Food and Drug Administration reported that the number of people who contracted intestinal infections after eating salads at McDonald's rose to 476. Laboratory confirmed cases of cyclospore infection were reported in 15 states among people in ...

Doctors managed to establish the source of a large-scale outbreak of salad poisoning in the US

The worst E. coli outbreak in the United States in a decade has sickened 210 people in 36 states. Twenty-seven of the victims had kidney failure. Five people have died - deaths were recorded in Arkansas, California, Minnesota and New York. The source of the bacteria...

The first case of Zika infection through sex is recorded in the US

Texas has recorded the first case of Zika virus infection through sexual contact, although mosquitoes were previously thought to be the main carrier of the virus. According to doctors from Dallas, the infected person had sexual contact with a person who recently returned from Venezuela, where an outbreak has already been noted ...

A teenager from Oregon found the bubonic plague

A 16-year-old girl is hospitalized with bubonic plague in Oregon. Doctors believe she became infected after being bitten by an infected flea during a hunting trip. The state Department of Health reported that the teenager's first signs of illness appeared on October 21, five days later...

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