Two-time cancer survivor, 32, has hands and feet amputated after catching deadly infection from her

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A 32-year-old woman who has already fought cancer twice faces yet another battle after both her hands and feet were amputated following a rare infection caught from her puppy.

Hannah Rinehart has been in a medically-induced coma at Northside Hospital in Cumming, Georgia since July 3, after the bacteria ravaged her body and left her with a 103 degree fever.

Doctors were forced to amputate the nurse's hands and feet last Thursday after her body went into septic shock and she suffered circulatory problems.



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