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It begins with a minor injury, usually on an extremity. You complain about having the flu, and go about your normal routine. Wounds of any kind will hurt, but in this case the pain is excruciating.
Fever sets in, and an unusual redness develops around the area of injury and rapidly moves away from the initial site. By the next day, the redness has turned a strange blue color. The skin begins to blister horribly, the blister containing sickly yellowish to bluish fluid. Some of these blisters may burst, causing an eruption of foul-smelling pus and loss of large amounts of blood.
The pain at this point is severe, almost intolerable. Sometimes the pain is so bad, that you no longer feel it. By day four, it is obvious that gangrene has set in. At the hospital, surgeons plunge into a desperate, exhausting battle against the disease, fervently hacking away flesh that becomes rotten almost as fast as scalpels can cut it away. The prognosis is very poor, and the struggle for life continues until death or disfigurement comes - or maybe both.
This is a tale of a vicious disease that has a preference for human flesh, an appetite that surpasses the worst of nightmares. However, this is not like a nasty Hollywood horror movie, that might keep you up all night in terrified fascination. This one is made by Mother Nature, and is very, very real. .....
This is a story of, one such ...... real case.
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You have heard of the bacteria called "strep" -- the same bacteria that causes "strep throat". Over 10 million cases a year. This bacteria can cause Necrotizing Fasciitis – or flesh eating bacteria -
A bacteria that has been in the news a lot lately - "mrsa" - which is an abreviation for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus – can cause Necrotizing Fasciitis -
The television show "House" - season 3 episode 9 – dealt with this bacteria problem.
CBS had a segment on "mrsa" today – June 2, 2007
Check out this article by KPTV channel 12 of Portland, Oregon - October 18, 2007
This book is about this very problem – from a FIRST HAND perspective. Learn what it can do – as well as learn how to protect yourself. |
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