What was the reason of King of Greece Alexander's death?

May 30 - 1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece

Alexander was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death from the effects of a monkey bite at the age of 27. On 2 October 1920, Alexander was injured while walking through the grounds of the Tatoi estate. A domestic Barbary macaque belonging to the steward of the palace's grapevines attacked or was attacked by the king's German Shepherd Dog, Fritz, and Alexander attempted to separate the two animals. In doing so, another monkey attacked Alexander and bit him deeply on the leg and torso.

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Sonny Beaudoin

I live by the rule ...if multiple choice has a monkey you should always pick monkey .

Don Racette

He had no reason to be involved in monkey business.

Sean Philips

Poorly worded question

Chris Brown

Actually none of those. Retrodiagnoses have included poisoning and infectious as well as noninfectious diseases (1–6). After reviewing ancient accounts and modern theories, we have concluded that Alexander may have died of West Nile encephalitis.

Karin Johansson

Marianna Burt, he got a infection

Corey Taylor

Technically, the bite from the monkey became infected. Alexander could have been saved from the resulting sepsis if his leg had been amputated, but no surgeon in Greece had the wisdom and courage to do so, and the fools cowardly let their king die.

Wyla Reedy

For some reason monkeys seem to be the cause of many diseases.

Joe Mangan

Adø Lunzi, I love people who know more than four words of English.

Joe Mangan

Cynthia Dahle, monkeys or royalty?

Chris Braid

An extremely strange way to phrase a question!

Dennis Walker

ruthfunk, whazat?

June

I concur that macaques, though beautiful, can be vicious 🚨

Christy Jarrett

ruthfunk, I think you need to reread the question. It wasn’t about Alexander the Great. It was about Alexander of Greece.

Naked Kitty Slave

Sepsis should be the answer.

Carl Belken

thomassr, That happened before antibiotics were invented. I'll bet it was a severe infection that killed him. If this is what actually happened,It would have been nice if this was mentioned in the answer.

thomassr

The reason I didn't like this was they were t obscure about reason of death mokey bite do say much was it rabies or infection from bite or other reasons?