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A Danish man whose finger was bitten by a cat four years ago has died after flesh-eating bacteria infected his blood.
Henrik Kriegbaum Plettner adopted a cat and her kittens from a shelter in 2018 and was bitten on his index finger after trying to move one of the kittens.
He thought nothing of it until he realised his hand had swollen to twice its size within a few hours.
He rang a doctor but was told to wait until the following day, and after a number of consultations he ended up at Denmark's Kolding hospital.
He was hospitalised there for a month, during which he underwent 15 operations.
But four months after the operations, the finger still did not function properly and doctors decided to amputate it.
Despite this, the 33-year-old's health began to decline, with his mother telling local media: 'He had very fluctuating health.
'He had a weakened immune system, pneumonia, gout and diabetes.
'The cat had bitten right into a blood vessel, and when a cat bites and pulls its tooth out, the hole closes and the bacteria spreads.'
As the wound had closed almost immediately after he was bitten, the bacteria had entered his bloodstream through the vein and stayed in the body where it began to spread.
Plettner's family say he died in October but they have now gone public so that others take cat bites seriously.
Full story here....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...e-FOUR-YEARS-later-flesh-eating-bacteria.html
Henrik Kriegbaum Plettner adopted a cat and her kittens from a shelter in 2018 and was bitten on his index finger after trying to move one of the kittens.
He thought nothing of it until he realised his hand had swollen to twice its size within a few hours.
He rang a doctor but was told to wait until the following day, and after a number of consultations he ended up at Denmark's Kolding hospital.
He was hospitalised there for a month, during which he underwent 15 operations.
But four months after the operations, the finger still did not function properly and doctors decided to amputate it.
Despite this, the 33-year-old's health began to decline, with his mother telling local media: 'He had very fluctuating health.
'He had a weakened immune system, pneumonia, gout and diabetes.
'The cat had bitten right into a blood vessel, and when a cat bites and pulls its tooth out, the hole closes and the bacteria spreads.'
As the wound had closed almost immediately after he was bitten, the bacteria had entered his bloodstream through the vein and stayed in the body where it began to spread.
Plettner's family say he died in October but they have now gone public so that others take cat bites seriously.
Full story here....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...e-FOUR-YEARS-later-flesh-eating-bacteria.html