The two men were infected with plague, saving mouse

The victim of the plague of the US state of Oregon is happy to be alive. This has long become an exotic disease left the man with no fingers and toes.

Plague   They called the Black Death of the terrible devastation that caused the disease in the Middle Ages. In the 20th century the disease was finally defeated with antibiotics, and now in the developed countries it is something very rare, even exotic. 60-year-old town in Oregon Prinevel Paul Gaylord had the misfortune of contracting this rare disease.

Doctors were able to save the life of Paul, but that they had to cut off his fingers and toes, already affected by the infection. The operation was painful, but successful. The patient said that he was happy to stay alive. As for the lost parts of the body, then it is certain that he could get used to it.

"I am extremely pleased that survived - said the victim of the plague. - What happened, change can not any more. I want to get rid of the pain and be able to walk again, to do some things on their own. So, what I went through, not I wish even to his enemies. "

Gaylord contracted the plague in June, when he tried to pull out with a friend the mouse from the jaws of a cat. Anyone bitten men, and both soon the plague. Friend Paul began early treatment with antibiotics, so that the disease does not cause serious damage to the body, but Paul himself with a late starting therapy.

Because of this, he spent more than a month on life support machine, while the family of Paul is already preparing himself for his death. Now, a former welder coming months physiotherapy - he must learn to live with crippled limbs.

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