Overview
- Andrew Kane of Northumberland died on September 18 following weeks of treatment for sepsis that developed after a horsefly bite to his elbow.
- He was bitten while working on a farm in Shrewsbury, and his mother says a persistent red mark prompted a GP visit where antibiotics were prescribed.
- Roughly two weeks later he collapsed on a night out in Morpeth, and clinicians at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital found he was in septic shock.
- He was transferred to Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital, placed in an induced coma, briefly improved, then deteriorated as the infection returned and organs failed.
- Family tributes describe a popular father and contract farmer; a funeral at St Mary’s Church in Morpeth was scheduled for Thursday, and he is survived by daughter Skylar, two sisters and a nephew.