Alaska Man Develops Rare 'Seal Finger' Infection After Encountering Brown Bear in Possible Medical First

Mycoplasma phocimorsus is a zoonotic pathogen, often transmitted from seals, that is resistant to common antibiotics and can ...

Alaska Man Contracts Mysterious ‘Seal Finger’ Disease in What Officials Are Calling a Medical First

The 29-year-old hunter got the disease after skinning a brown bear off the Alaskan Peninsula, but it took doctors weeks to diagnose it ...
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Man develops infection from brown bear in medical first

Getty Image This is a medical first. Alaskan officials are ringing the warning bells after a man developed an infection from ...
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‘Seal finger’ infection affecting an Alaska bear hunter was a medical first

When a 29-year-old Anchorage man returned from a bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula in September of 2024, he had a persistent and painful finger infection that defied easy diagnosis.