Streptococcus suis infection is recognised despite it rareness as a zoonotic occupational disease in humans, and is often associated with meningitis, more rarely with bacteremia.A Streptococcus suis bacteremia occurred in a hunter and was complicated by septic shock with disseminated intravascular coagulation, rhabdomyolysis and purpura fulminans. Contamination had occurred through inoculation of a cut on the thumb when the hunter was slaughtering a wild boar. The blood cultures isolated Streptococcus suis. The patient died 36 hours after admission, despite intensive care and adapted antibiotic treatment with penicillin A and macrolide.Streptococcus suis bacteremia are uncommon but serious in humans. Despite adapted treatment, evolution may be fatal, so their conditions of occurrence must be well known by hunters and practitioners.