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Wisconsin man contracts rare blood infection from dog

By IVAN MORENO The doctor said animal lov- lation and will need surgery
Associated Press ers have no need to panic: to repair, she said.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wis- They're more likely to die in It's unknown which dog
consin man was preparing a car accident than to be gave Manteufel the infec-
for additional surgeries af- infected by the bacteria. tion. He and his wife own an
ter having part of his legs "It's extremely rare. Do not 8-year-old pit bull, but she
and forearms amputated get rid of your pets. Contin- said her husband came in
because of a dog lick that ue behaving the same way contact with several dogs
led to a rare blood infec- that you have behaved in the days leading to his in-
tion, his wife said Thursday. with your pets up until now," fection, including a stray he
Greg Manteufel, 48, has Munoz-Price said. encountered during his job
been hospitalized since Dawn Manteufel said her as a house painter.
late June, when he went to husband's symptoms be- According to the U.S. Cen-
a Milwaukee-area hospital gan on June 26, with a fe- ters for Disease Control and
with flu-like symptoms. He ver and pain in his legs. But Prevention, up to 74 per-
was in good spirits despite then he started experienc- cent of dogs and up to 57
having undergone seven ing delirium, and bruises percent of cats have cap-
surgeries so far, his wife, and blemishes developed nocytophaga. People also
Dawn Manteufel, told The during the short car ride have a different strain of
Associated Press. to a hospital in West Bend, the same bacteria in their
She said her husband was Wisconsin, where he was mouths, Munoz-Price said.
heading into the operating treated initially, she said. "We have trillions of bac-
room again on Thursday The infection caused Greg teria in our bodies. Usually In this Aug. 2, 2018 photo provided by Dawn Manteufel, Greg
and still had three more Manteufel's blood pres- those bacteria live happily Manteufel lays in his hospital bed at Froedtert Hospital in
surgeries to go, but that sure to drop and circula- with us. Sometimes they act Milwaukee.
he was looking forward to tion in his limbs to rapidly up," she said. Associated Press
being fitted for prosthetic decrease, which in itself The CDC doesn't track the they live in a one-story "His words are, 'It is what it
limbs. isn't unusual for blood in- number of infections from home that will be easier for is,'" Dawn Manteufel said.
"He's happy to be here. He fections, Munoz-Price said. capnocytophaga. him to navigate. A GoFundMe page to
said he didn't come this The infection was quickly Dawn Manteufel said that Eventually, she said, she raise money for the Man-
far to cry about it and say, cleared with antibiotics, but once her husband is re- and her husband will have teufels has been set up by
'Why me?'" she said. the problem in Manteufel's leased from the hospital, to sell the two-story house a relative.q
Her husband was diag- case "was that his body he will temporarily move in they've lived in for 18 years
nosed with a blood infec- mounted an overwhelm- with his parents because and move elsewhere.
tion caused by capnocy- ing response to this original
tophaga, bacteria that blood infection and he shut
is common in the saliva down the circulation of his
of cats and dogs but al- limbs," the doctor said.
most never leads to ill- Doctors first amputated
ness, said Dr. Silvia Munoz- Manteufel's legs, just below
Price, an epidemiologist the knee. His forearms were
with Froedtert & the Medi- amputated two weeks lat-
cal College of Wisconsin, er, his wife said.
where Manteufel is being The tip of her husband's
treated. nose also lost blood circu- Farmers Market
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