A man ended up dying four years after he was bitten by a baby cat he had adopted, condemning him to slow agony.
The story that we share with you today is disturbing, somewhat disturbing and definitely not pleasant about the dangers that not being careful and responsible enough can imply when a cat or a dog can bite a human.
It is something that is considered habitual, recurring or harmless, that when playing with a my child or a puppy dog, these can be a bit violent during romps.
Particularly when they are just a few months old, these two types of animals usually bite their humans lightly as part of the ritual of creating mutual bonds.
However, sometimes emotion can get the best of these little ones and the harmless romp ends up turning into a serious deep bite.
The vast majority of the time we tend to minimize this kind of incident, since, indeed, they are very recurring and common.
But now we share with you a very disturbing story that makes it clear why we should take these kinds of episodes more seriously.
How a baby cat kills a human with a simple bite
From the Daily Mail comes the story of the Danish family of the Plettners, and their tragedy, which began in a veiled and harmless way years before their fatal moment.
Henrik Kriegbaum Plettner I had adopted a cat and her kittens from a local shelter back in 2018. Everything was nice, noble, laudable. But while he was moving one of the kittens, the subject received a bite from one of the kittens on his index finger.
The man did not care, until hours later the swelling seemed to almost burst his finger, it was to that point that he began with a medical way of the cross that ended up admitting him to the hospital. Kölding Hospital in Denmark:
“We knew that I was doing it wrong by putting off going to the hospital. However, we had no idea that he was in such serious condition. Go to the doctor after a bite, don’t think, ‘Oh! that’s just a cat.”
It is what it tells desireePlettner’s widow, who recounts how that bite became the origin of the fatal tragedy, since it was the entry point for an infection that led to the subject’s finger being amputated after a month of being hospitalized seriously .
The worst seemed to have ended there. But it was really the beginning, since the bite also gave way to a rare bacterium that basically consumes the meat.
Where not the rest of the hand was consumed, but the arm. At the same time, his health deteriorated without brake until, four years later, he passed away.
The obvious recommendation to prevent these tragic cases is to thoroughly wash and disinfect the bite as soon as it occurs.