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Mum lost leg to flesh-eating disease after thinking she had a cold

Mum lost leg to flesh-eating disease after thinking she had a cold - Friedel de Beer initially thought she had a cold before ...
Medical Xpress

Disease or Syndrome: Fasciitis, Necrotizing

Louisiana health officials have confirmed a fifth death this year linked to Vibrio vulnificus, a rare and dangerous flesh-eating bacteria found in warm coastal waters. A new human challenge trial ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask the doctors: Flesh-eating vibrio infection comes from brackish water

Dear Doctors: We live in Florida, and we keep seeing on the news about people dying from flesh-eating bacteria you can get when you go swimming. It seems like it’s happening a lot more often than it ...

'I thought I had flu then my skin turned purple and doctors removed all my limbs and half my face'

Alex Lewis contracted a severe form of Strep A after thinking he'd just caught a touch of the 'lurgie' from customers ...

Woman who thought she had cold had to have her leg amputated

She took paracetamol and set off on a long drive - but had to stop at every service station ...

Mum, 51, who thought she had a cold lost leg to flesh-eating disease

Friedel de Beer 'did not think much' of her symptoms at first ...
Mankato Free Press

Flesh-eating vibrio infection is from brackish water

DEAR DOCTORS: We live in Florida, and we keep seeing on the news about people dying from flesh-eating bacteria you can get when you go swimming. It seems like it’s happening a lot more often than it ...