The event took place in mid-November 2023 in a parish in Ceske Budejovice (a town in the southern Czech Republic), but was only reported in the media in recent days. There is also new information about the reasons for this drama. It all started with the pastor not showing up for a scheduled meeting and not answering the phone, which worried the mayor. So he called the priest for help.
At the rectory, paramedics found the injured and bleeding priest. Czech website novinky.cz, citing multiple sources, reported that the priest's penis had been amputated. The priest was rushed to hospital with serious injuries to his private parts, where he was placed in a medically induced coma.
The priest was taken to the hospital. All because of a tick bite
As it soon turned out, the root cause of the priest's health problems was a tick, specifically its bite, which led to this Viral encephalitis.
– said the Vicar General of the Diocese of Czech Budejovice to which the injured priest belonged.
He said the patient is still in the hospital. He has already woken up from a medically induced coma and is conscious. However, for now, he communicates to a certain extent. As doctors confirmed in an interview with the Czech portal novinky.cz, encephalitis can cause psychotic states.
These are mental disorders characterized by loss of ability to assess reality, disturbances in its perception, mood swings and hallucinations or delusions. That may have been the case here. Because of his mental illness, the priest may have harmed himself. The police ruled out that anyone had attacked the priest.
Source: novinky.cz
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