Shelby Smith is a teenager from Tennessee, USA, who had an annoying itchy throat for a few weeks but ignored it.
From here it turned into a deadly infection that caused the loss of 6 fingers from both hands.
It seems that the young woman had a rare form of extremely aggressive itching in the throat that is difficult to detect and even harder to cure. She was taken to the hospital and placed in an induced coma for a week while doctors treated her infection. She could be saved, but the medication came at a high price: amputation of 6 toes and 2 fingers.
Another case is Kevin Breen, a 44-year-old father, who did not suspect that it was something irregular when he felt an itchy throat and other flu symptoms.
He initially ignored the typical flu symptoms until he contracted severe stomach pain and was rushed to the hospital. The doctors scanned his stomach, which showed that Breen’s flu was much more serious than it seemed. The scan showed that his stomach was dangerously large and full of pus.
The man’s organs had begun to fail one by one, which caused the doctors to redirect his blood flow to the organs. Unfortunately, this led to the death of the flesh on the hands and feet.
Apparently, the man got a virus from his son who had recently had a red throat. Several tests showed that the man got the infection from his son, but it somehow managed to pass from the throat to the stomach.
After an anaphylactic shock and a good period of time hospitalized, on dialysis, the man survived. Unfortunately, because his feet and toes have turned black and can no longer be used, they will have to be amputated: he will have to do 4 more operations in which his left hand will have to be completely amputated, more fingers in the right hand and partial amputation of both legs.
