{"id":25655,"date":"2019-12-06T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25655"},"modified":"2024-06-26T07:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T21:39:47","slug":"man-dies-of-rare-infection-after-he-was-licked-by-his-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25655","title":{"rendered":"Man dies of rare infection after he was licked by his dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" class=\"wp-image-25656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dog_lick.jpg\" alt=\"Dog Lick\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dog_lick.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dog_lick-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dog_lick-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Don&#8217;t let your dog or cat lick your face or wounds.<br \/>A 63-year-old man from Germany has died because of a rare infection traced back to a lick from his dog.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In a paper published by the European Journals of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, doctors are now warning pet-owners to seek urgent medical advice if they\u2019re experiencing severe flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cPet owners with flu-like symptoms should urgently seek medical advice when their symptoms exceed those of a simple viral infection, which in this case were severe dyspnoea (shortness of breath) and petechiae (<span data-v-94a4e1be=\"\" data-v-0776bc54=\"\">a small red or purple spot caused by bleeding into the skin<\/span>),\u201d writes the report\u2019s lead author Naomi Mader.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The disease contracted by the man, who was admitted to Red Cross Hospital in Bremen, Germany, was due to the bacterium capnocytophaga canimorsus. It\u2019s found most commonly in the mouths of cats and dogs, and is transmitted to humans in rare cases, usually through an animal bite.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/world\/man-dies-of-rare-infection-after-he-was-licked-by-his-dog\/wcm\/2a0f2d77-4cfc-4d12-b0bd-736098f5fa8f\">https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/world\/man-dies-of-rare-infection-after-he-was-licked-by-his-dog\/wcm\/2a0f2d77-4cfc-4d12-b0bd-736098f5fa8f<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let your dog or cat lick your face or wounds.A 63-year-old man from Germany has died because of a rare infection traced back to a lick from his dog. In a paper published by the European Journals of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, doctors are now warning pet-owners to seek urgent medical advice if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man dies of rare infection after he was licked by his dog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50640,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions\/50640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}