A WOMAN died from an infection caused by her granddaughter's dog licking a wound on her leg, a court has heard.

June Baxter, 83, cut her leg while using a commode at her home on June 29.

The retired legal secretary living in Attleborough, Norfolk was alone when she injured herself so pressed her community call bell.

This alerted her main carer, her granddaughter Caitlan Allin, who arrived with her dog.

Shortly after, paramedics turned up at the house to treat the injury, an inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court heard.

The following day, June told her granddaughter she felt sick, and on July 1 she was taken to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital .

Despite being treated, her condition deteriorated, and she died from septic shock on July 7.

Tests identified pasteurella multocida on June's

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