ADIt wasn’t until his fourth day in the hospital that a blood test revealed the man had a type of bacteria found in the saliva of healthy dogs and cats. ADBut the German man is dead because his dog licked him. A paper published in the European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine details how an otherwise healthy man lost his life within weeks of being infected by bacteria found in his dog’s saliva. The man entered cardiac arrest and was successfully resuscitated, according to the paper, but he was then intubated and placed on a breathing machine. Last year, a Wisconsin man lost his legs, hands and nose after contracting the same bacteria from his dog’s saliva.

Source: Washington Post November 26, 2019 23:30 UTC