* US man contracts rare blood infection from dog's lickAnd yet, Ellie may be the reason Manteufel, 49, nearly died. Dawn Manteufel Manteufel lost parts of his arms and legs, as well as the skin of his nose and part of his upper lip from capnocytophaga. He's using a fork regularly and he's now working on picking up the TV remote, opening doorknobs, cutting vegetables and doing the dishes. He's using shortened leg prosthetics, called stubbies, to get his body conditioned to eventually use to full-sized ones. Fieg said people with the gene variant are at increased risk for recurrent capnocytophaga or other infections in the future.

Source: Stuff September 27, 2019 18:22 UTC