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, ...

"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 ...