WTF: Man has arm amputated days after contracting flesh-eating bacteria from sushi

WARNING, DISTURBING CONTENT: A man has had to have his left arm amputated after he contracted a flesh-eating bacteria from raw sushi.

The 71-year-old South Korean man developed a fever and pain in his hand just hours after eating the raw fish, according to a case report in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The unnamed patient had a history of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and end-stage renal disease when he presented to hospital two days after consuming the seafood.

He had developed large blisters all over his left hand, with doctors diagnosing the infection as vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that they endeavoured to treat it with antibiotics.

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