A 38-year-old dairy farmer from Kerala’s Kannur lost his right hand after a bacterial infection from a fish bite turned life-threatening, and the doctors had to amputate it.

Thalassery: A young man’s right hand had to be amputated following a severe infection caused by a fish bite while cleaning a pond. The incident took place in Payikkatt Kuni, near Madapppeedika, ...

However, as the wound worsened, I got admitted to a hospital in Mahe and later to a private hospital in Kozhikode,” he said. Rajeesh was reportedly diagnosed with gas gangrene, also known as ...

Clostridium perfringens is the most widely distributed pathogen, and is a cause of gas gangrene, necrotic enteritis and diarrhoea. In the January 22 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

"It seriously smelled like death." Ms Wardrope had contracted gas gangrene, a rare and highly lethal bacterial infection of the soft tissue. She spent 13 days in a coma in the Mackay Base Hospital ...