Mycoplasma phocimorsus is a zoonotic pathogen, often transmitted from seals, that is resistant to common antibiotics and can ...
You feel it first as a slight tenderness around your fingertip. Maybe you dismiss it as a paper cut or kitchen mishap. But within hours, that mild discomfort transforms into throbbing pain that keeps ...
When a 29-year-old Anchorage man returned from a bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula in September of 2024, he had a persistent and painful finger infection that defied easy diagnosis. His swollen and ...
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Man develops infection from brown bear in medical first
Getty Image This is a medical first. Alaskan officials are ringing the warning bells after a man developed an infection from ...
Anita C. Chandrasekaran, MD, MPH, is a rheumatologist at Hartford Healthcare Medical Group in Connecticut. She is board-certified in both rheumatology and internal medicine. Symptoms of a swollen ...
An Alaska doctor has documented the first case of a rare and potentially risky infection from contact with a brown bear. The infection is known as “seal finger” and people typically get it handling ...
In the Majengo area of Nyeri town, Jane Muthoni washes her dishes with a lot of pain. One of her fingers is swollen and turned red. "I finished washing my children's clothes using a detergent sold by ...
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