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Outlook: I Got an Infection and Lost my Limbs

Alex Lewis and family

29/12/2014

I Got an Infection and Lost my Limbs

BBC World Service - Outlook, I Got an Infection and Lost my Limbs

Alex Lewis, a British man who caught a cold and in weeks had lost all his arms and legs

Alex Lewis, a British man who caught an infection and within weeks had lost all his limbs tells Jo Fidgen why he's had a brilliant year since it happened.

Alex Lewis is a British man who caught an infection and within weeks had lost all his limbs. He  tells Jo Fidgen why he's had a brilliant year since it happened. 

Lebo Malepa is a South African man who started a community bicycle tour business to show tourists the real Soweto. 

Joselyn Dumas is an award winning Ghanaian actor and television personality. In her latest film 'Love or Something Like That' she takes on the role of a surgeon who contracts HIV.

Kartik Sawhney is a blind Indian computer scientist who has created software that "sings" graphs to blind students.

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