Man Amputated Limbs Because A Dog Licked Him

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

They say out there that the dog is man's best friend. But that doesn't seem to be the case for a man in Wisconsin who just lost his hands and legs to an infection he apparently suffered after being licked by dogs.

According to friends and family of Greg Manteufel, the West Bend-based man was a motorcycling and dog lover, but on June 27 he fell seriously ill and had to be rushed.

What were initially thought to be flu symptoms quickly turned into a serious bacterial infection. He hit him hard. It was just covered in wounds from all sides. it seemed that someone had hit him with a baseball bat,” Dawn Manteufel, the victim's wife, told FOX-6.

Blood tests detected the presence of the capnocytophaga canimorsus bacteria. "Within hours, Greg's body began to go into septic shock," he told himself via a Gofundme page established by Jason Marchand, a friend of Mantefeul.

"This type of bacteria comes from the saliva of dogs. This infection possibly caused a very severe response from the body,”said Dr. Silvia Munoz-Price to the chain, explaining that said reaction would cause a drop in blood pressure that cuts off circulation to the extremities. "More than 99 percent of people have dogs and will never present this type of problem," said the doctor about the surprising case.

According to Manteufel's wife, her husband is a dog lover and lived with approximately eight dogs before the incident, so it is very difficult to determine which one transmitted the bacteria to him.

As explained in the charity campaign, the bacterium Capnocytophaga Canimorsus is normally found in the saliva of 60% of dogs and 17% of domestic cats, and in the United States and Canada there have only been 500 cases of sepsis caused by said microorganism without that the dog had bitten the patient.

"All the help they can provide will be greatly appreciated," Merchand said. "Greg's recovery will be a very long process," he assured of the long road ahead of surgeries.