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Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), also known as flesh-eating disease, is an infection that kills the body's soft tissue. [3] It is a serious disease that begins and spreads quickly. [3] Symptoms include red or purple or black skin, swelling, severe pain, fever, and vomiting. [3] The most commonly affected areas are the limbs and perineum. [2]
A rare, deadly, flesh-eating bacteria is on the rise in Japan, with hundreds of people infected.. Over 1,000 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) were reported in Japan in the first ...
Athlete's foot, known medically as tinea pedis, is a common skin infection of the feet caused by a fungus. [2] Signs and symptoms often include itching, scaling, cracking and redness. [3] In rare cases the skin may blister. [6] Athlete's foot fungus may infect any part of the foot, but most often grows between the toes. [3] The next most common ...
Mycetoma is a chronic infection in the skin caused by either bacteria (actinomycetoma) or fungi , typically resulting in a triad of painless firm skin lumps, the formation of weeping sinuses, and a discharge that contains grains. [1] 80% occur in feet. [1]
Flesh-eating bacteria cause woman, 33, to go into sepsis. Diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, she reveals symptoms, including a swollen knee. Woman, 33, thought her 'giant' leg was a knee sprain.
The bacteria enter the bloodstream through a cut in the skin, usually on the foot or ankle as people wade through water. Once infected, people "get a little lesion that looks maybe like a spider ...
The initial lesion is a small swelling under the skin following minor trauma which breaches the skin. [11] [12] It appears as a painless wet nodule, which may be present for years before ulceration, swelling and weeping from sinuses, followed by bone deformity. [3] [7] The sinuses discharge a grainy liquid of fungal colonies. [11]
Actress Georgie Henley said she contracted an aggressive, "flesh-eating" skin infection when she was 18 years old and required extensive surgeries.