Police warned the owners of pets to pay attention to the risk of licking the animal after what 49-year-old father of two children Craig Jones killed an infection he received from the saliva of his dog. Despite the treatment, the man could not be saved and died of severe sepsis. . Authorities They call on the public to observe hygiene near pets, especially if they have injuries or damage to the skin.
Craiga from Dublin found his wife of a purple and cold moment after his beigl in December 2022 licked an open wound on his leg. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors treated him for sepsis, a life -threatening reaction of the immune system to infection. However, he did not respond to this form of medicine at all and after six hearts of heart died the next day of organ failure. Other tests revealed that a likely infection that caused a fatal reaction is commonly found in the mouth of dogs.
The dog was supposed to lick the open wound. (illustration photo)
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Father of two children suffered from severe psoriasis, prolonged skin disease in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy skin cells. This can cause scaly rashes as well as open wounds and skin ulcers.
There is a suspicion that a fatal pathogen has reached Craig’s blood circulation After his dog’s language came into contact with an open wound. Microbiologist Eoghan O’Neill stated in the investigation that an unnamed bacterium infects people only in extremely rare cases, occurring in approximately 1 in a million people. He added, however, that When it gets into the body can be very dangerous. “It’s a strong bacillus that has a 33 % mortality when it enters the bloodstream,” he said.
Capnocytophaga Canimorsus JE one of the bacteria that animals have and is fatal to a person. It is normally transmitted by bite from the dog, but can also be spread by licking an open wound, as well as the death of Craig. One study from Japan from 2014 found that this bacterium occurred in 69 % of tested dogs and 54 % of cats.
Most healthy people infected with this bacterium are completely recovered with antibiotics but For patients with a weakened immune system is considered dangerous. Symptoms that usually resemble a flu is appear within one to 8 days and culminated the next day.
