Sepsis — United Kingdom
A 51 year old man from Manchester spent 6 weeks in a coma as his body broke out in tennis-ball sized blisters after one of his whippet dogs licked his open wound. Doctors battled to keep him alive for 5 months in hospital after bacteria lurking in his dog’s mouth seeped into an open wound. This caused him to develop [a] sepsis after his immune system went into overdrive as it tried to fight the infection. Against all odds the man pulled through, but not before his kidneys both failed —
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