A British woman nearly died after contracting an infection that strikes at least 15 million American women annually, leaving her a quadruple amputee. Kim Smith is now a quadruple amputee, having lost both her hands at the wrists and her legs above the knee after a urinary tract infection went untreated for too long, morphing into life-threatening sepsis. UTIs are …
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Jeff Lynne has been forced to cancel the final Electric Light Orchestra show at BST Hyde Park due to “a systemic infection”. The band were due to play the closing show of their ‘Over And Out’ farewell tour at the London event on Sunday night (July 13), the final scheduled concert of the group’s long career. However, on Saturday, it …
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A 51-year-old man showed up at a hospital in Germany looking as though he was wasting away, with swelling and tenderness in his ankles and knees. Then, his heart stopped. Doctors were able to resuscitate him. Then, they got to work trying to figure out what was wrong. The man told them that for three months he had been suffering …
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