A teenage girl has died at the very hospital where she wanted to become a nurse after bungling medics allegedly mistook her stroke for an ear infection twice. Picture shows Mar, 18, undated. She died after doctors confused a stroke with otitis in Cadiz, Spain. (Newsflash) Mar Gutierrez Puget, 18,…
The woman who lost her leg after bacteria destroyed her bones when she trod on thorns has told how her new prosthetic limb has liberated her. Gabriela Melo, 29, trod on tiny thorns while out with friends on a barefoot walk in a rural area near her hometown Uba, Brazil,…
A young woman who was nine months pregnant has lost her unborn baby after she caught an infection from her pet cat's poo. Heavily pregnant Milena Gloria Cardoso, who lives with her family in the Brazilian city of Sao Vicente, lost her unborn baby due to complications caused by toxoplasmosis.…
This teenager has tragically died after carrying out a self-piercing at home and developing a deadly infection from it. Izabela Eduarda de Sousa, 15, pierced her eyebrow with the help of a female friend at her home in the municipality of Engenheiro Caldas in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas…
A 20-year-old Chinese chef has had his left arm amputated to save his life after his little finger was pricked while handling a fish and he quickly suffered a severe bacterial infection. The incident took place in the district of Lingui in the city of Guilin located in the south-eastern…
