Infection Cuts Off Model's Hands And Feet!

Models beware! Urinary infection may cut off your dearest assets.


Mariana Bridi da Costa is a 20-year old Brazilian model and beauty queen who lose her hands and feet due to severe urinary infection.

The young beauty who made it twice to the Miss World-Brazil finals and had participated in the Miss Bikini International pageant in China was sedated in a Brazilian hospital and was on artificial respiration after being amputated.

According to reports, the model was diagnosed with an infection by the Pseudomonas aeroginosa bacterium. “Septicemia set in in her limbs, cutting off circulation and forcing doctors to amputate.”

Poor beauty! Her boyfriend had revealed that she fell ill on December 30, but was initially misdiagnosed with kidney stones. “The infection quickly spread, causing her to go back to hospital for tests that revealed her condition. Surgeons had to act to remove her damaged hands and feet.”

“The concern is over her life,” says the model's father in a newspaper interview.

Between this life and death situation, Mariana Bridi da Costa's family had to make a tough decision. They chose to have the model's hands and feet amputated than letting her die with the infection.



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