During the summer a lot of people in Connecticut come to the shoreline to cool off. One New Britain man says he dipped his feet in the water at Hammonasset Beach State Park and contracted a flesh eating disease.
“You can contract anything like that anywhere. Sitting in a waiting room at MediQuick or going to your doctor’s office and sure I’m sure you probably can catch it in the water,” said beach-goer Sherry Crick of Meriden.
U.S. Army basic trainee Dez Del Barba, who is from Stockton, Calif., is currently being treated at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He has had 14 surgeries and his left leg had to be amputated above the knee since becoming ill at Fort Benning, according to his parents. The doctors are hoping they can save his right leg, his parents said.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in the San Diego area, prompting health authorities to alert law enforcement and other officials in California. Nine people who injected black tar heroin between Oct. 2 and Nov. […]
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – The recent case of a New Britain man diagnosed with the so called flesh-eating bacteria, whose leg was reportedly amputated, is prompting a lot of questions. Necrotizing Fasciitis is a skin & soft tissue infection, and is extremely rare. Many of us though know it as a flesh-eating condition. Epidemiologist […]
A Knoxville woman is now speaking out after she says a trip to the nail salon turned into a nightmare.
A 71-year-old man died from a flesh-eating bacteria that health officials say he contracted from eating a bad raw oyster at a Florida seafood restaurant.
Angel Perez is an avid crabber. On July 2nd, he was crabbing in New Jersey at Matt’s Landing near the Morris River. Hours later, his right leg began to swell. Then, it quickly got worse.
DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — For the Meredith family, a trip to Panama City Beach was an annual tradition for some fun in the sun. But this time, things almost turned deadly for father Tony Meredith. “I almost lost my leg or my life,” he said. It started off with flu-like symptoms around five days after he […]
A recent victim of Hurricane Harvey is a 77-year-old woman who encountered flesh-eating bacteria inside a home near Houston.
MIAMI (AP) — A 77-year-old woman was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and died nearly two weeks after she fell and scraped her leg while walking on a Florida beach, her family said Monday. Wade Fleming told The Associated Press that his mother Lynn Fleming, who retired to Florida’s Gulf Coast, stumbled and fell into the […]
