A mom of two from Scotland feels “lucky to be alive” after a rare flesh-eating disease left her with a butt wound 20 centimeters deep. It “looks like a peach that someone has taken a huge bite out of on one side,” Tracy de Jongh Eglin, 59, lamented to SWNS. The former events manager, who … Read more
People who value their flesh are being warned to steer clear of Hurricane Idalia floodwaters in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Officials are warning residents that hurricane flooding has spread the flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus to inland regions where it isn’t usually a threat. A Vibrio infection can cause necrosis — the death … Read more
Jennifer Barlow thought she was suffering from a bad knee sprain — then, she went septic. She had just returned to Atlanta from her vacation in the Bahamas in January when she started to feel weak and experiencing swelling in her right knee. “It was so swollen — it was at least three times the … Read more
Carolyn Gower was like any other healthy woman her age when suddenly she was struck down by a mystery illness that would have killed her if it wasn’t for an eleventh-hour act. The Australian woman was found by her adult children in bed on the evening of March 14 suffering from delirium and a high … Read more
Maybe New York isn’t so bad after all. Beaches in sunny South Florida are experiencing “the perfect ‘pathogen’ storm” of flesh-eating bacteria that are washing up to shore, according to new research from Florida Atlantic University. It’s happening due to a brown and smelly algae known as sargassum, which is intertwining with plastic marine debris … Read more
A former cross-country runner was left disfigured and without a leg after developing this flesh-eating disease. Emma Doherty, 37, fell ill with sepsis in February 2021 – which later turned into necrotizing fasciitis, a serious infection that affects the tissue of your skin, causing it to die. As a result of the disease, the British … Read more
One woman from England was given just hours to live after developing sepsis and a flesh-eating bug following a routine Caesarean section. After Amy Hiner, 40, gave birth to her second child, daughter Evie, she developed necrotizing fasciitis and sepsis from the C-section, causing her to lose half of her stomach. “It just keeps spreading … Read more
A new study has found that the flesh-eating mpox virus is particularly deadly for people living with HIV. Mpox — previously known as “monkeypox” before it was renamed last November amid concerns of racism — infected thousands of people last year, prompting a “public health emergency.” Now, a new study published in the Lancet has … Read more
This quick nap turned into a waking nightmare. A Florida man has ended up blind in one eye after contracting a rare infection from a flesh-eating parasite during a brief snooze. Mike Krumholz, 21, took a 40-minute nap with his contact lenses in on Dec. 19 of last year and woke up with his right … Read more
One mom faced a horrific medical emergency after her daughter’s case of chickenpox turned into a deadly flesh-eating bacteria. Leanne Passey, 31, from England, said that after her daughter, 4-year-old Reign, was diagnosed with the virus, she was left fighting for her life after developing strep A. It caused the little girl’s chickenpox to turn … Read more