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Marie Trainer's limbs were amputated after a rare infection led to sepsis.

(CNN)Days after returning home from a Punta Cana vacation, Marie Trainer called out of work with a backache and nausea. Then her temperature spiked and dropped, sending her to a local Stark County, Ohio, emergency room in the early hours of May 11.

When Trainer woke in a hospital bed nine days later, her hands and legs had been amputated.

It took doctors seven days to discover Trainer incurred a severe infection, not from a "tropical" travel disease as they first suspected, but from her German shepherd's kisses.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/02/health/amputation-dog-lick-ohio-woman/index.html

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