A Canadian mother who had three limbs amputated after she was bitten by her dog during a game of tug-of-war is raising awareness on sepsis, the life-threatening infection that nearly killed her. In ...

An Oregon family alleged in a $100 million lawsuit that their 18-year-old son died from an infection after doctors at a Corvallis hospital did not remove pine needles and debris from his wound before ...

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A former nurse lost both her legs and an arm after a cough turned into deadly sepsis. Jayne Carpenter, 51, from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, spent nine weeks in the hospital fighting for her life. Her ...

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In 1992, an international consensus panel defined sepsis as a systemic inflammatory response to infection, noting that sepsis could arise in response to multiple infectious causes and that septicemia ...