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Flesh eating bacteria

Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious but rare infection of the deeper layers of skin and subcutaneous tissues (fascia). Many types of bacteria can cause necrotizing fasciitis (eg. Group A streptococcus, Vibrio vulnificus, Clostridium perfringens, Bacteroides fragilis), of which Group A streptococcus is the most common cause. more...

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If bananas could sue for libel, they would have a case. An e-mail rumor that was traced to the University of California at Riverside claimed that shipments ...
From Family Pratice News, 5/1/00 by Joanne Berger
Flesh-eating disease
Flesh-eating disease is more properly called necrotizing fasciitis, a rare condition in which bacteria destroy tissues underlying the skin. This tissue ...
From Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 4/6/01 by Julia Barrett
Court of Appeals upholds doctor's win in flesh-eating bacteria case
A man who lost a leg to flesh-eating bacteria after refusing a CAT scan cannot hold the doctor liable for failing to convince him to have the test, ...
From Daily Record, The (Baltimore), 10/7/05 by Barbara Grzincic
Doctors seek source of flesh-eating disease that kills woman in Canada
Disease specialists in Saint John, Canada, are searching for the source of a case of a flesh-eating disease that killed a 37-year-old woman at the Saint ...
From Healthcare Purchasing News, 6/1/04
Man fights to stop flesh-eating bacteria
Man fights to stop flesh-eating bacteria 19 surgeries later, doctors expect him to recover By SHIRLEY DANG of the Journal Sentinel staff Saturday, ...
From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, 8/3/02 by SHIRLEY DANG
Flesh-eating bacteria hit here 2 stricken in Evanston after C-
Two cases of what has become a fearsome infection--known to the public as the "flesh-eating disease" and to doctors as "necrotizing fasciitis"--were ...
From Chicago Sun-Times, 8/28/01 by Nancy Moffett
Boy survives bout with `flesh-eating' bacteria
Boy survives bout with `flesh-eating' bacteria Associated Press Saturday, March 18, 2000 Janesville -- A 9-year-old boy afflicted with what ...
From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, 3/18/00
E-mail about bananas having flesh-eating bacteria called a hoax
E-mail about bananas having flesh-eating bacteria called a hoax Knight Ridder News Service Saturday, February 19, 2000 A widely circulating ...
From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, 2/19/00

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