Leah Stewart, a 35-year-old Sydney mother and school administrator, broke down in tears during her first television interview about the great white shark attack that nearly took her life at Coogee Beach, a harrowing account of fighting off an 11-foot predator with her daughter's face in her mind. Stewart was swimming at the popular Sydney […] The post Australian mother recalls shark attack that cost her an arm and left her in a coma for weeks appeared first on American Almanac .
Leah Stewart, a 35-year-old Sydney mother and school administrator, broke down in tears during her first television interview about the great white shark attack that nearly took her life at Coogee Beach, a harrowing account of fighting off an 11-foot predator with her daughter's face in her mind. Stewart was swimming at the popular Sydney beach on June 13 when a suspected great white shark seized her leg. She suffered severe bites to both arms and legs, lacerations, fractures, and extreme blood loss before beachgoers and off-duty medics pulled her from the water and applied tourniquets that likely saved her life. The beach was described as "drenched in blood" after the attack. Doctors placed Stewart in a medically induced coma that…Open
Ben West contracted the flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus during a fishing trip in Florida last year. After months of surgeries on his leg, he is set to have it amputated this week in attempt to improve his quality of life. He and his wife, Janie, join "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" to share how the infection has changed their lives. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas delivers the biggest stories, without bias or opinion. Watch "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" every weeknight at 7p/6C on NewsNation. #VargasReports NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
Symptoms of the illness include gastrointestinal illness, wound infection, or blood poisoning, according to health officials. In some cases, the bacteria can cause "severe and life-threatening infections." In some of these cases of severe infection, limbs need to be amputated.
A California teenager lost his right hand June 3 after he lit a tennis ball-sized firework, and it exploded. Nader Hanna, 18, was with his twin brother and their friends in the parking lot of the In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Pleasanton a few days after his high school graduation when a classmate handed him a firework, according to the San Francisco Chronicle . Hanna took the firework and lit it before he said the firework exploded, and his hand “disintegrated.” “It just exploded in my hand the second I lit it,” Hanna told the outlet. “My hand took the whole blow. I looked down and I didn’t see a hand. It disintegrated.” Three days after he graduated from high school, Nader Hanna was hanging out in a Pleasanton parking lot…Open
A 2-year-old boy is recovering after a traumatic lawn mower incident caused him to have part of his leg amputated. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
