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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]
These bacteria are characteristically different from Streptococcus dysgalactiae, which is a human-specific group G species that has a different phenotypic chemical composition. S. canis is important to the skin and mucosal health of cats and dogs, but under certain circumstances, these bacteria can cause opportunistic infections.
Pica is an appetite for, or the behavior of eating, non-nutritive substances (e.g., sand, coal, soil, chalk, paper). Pica can be dangerous to dogs. For example, dogs that eat dirt near roads that existed prior to the phaseout of tetraethyllead in gasoline or prior to the cessation of the use of contaminated oil (containing toxic PCBs) can die
The CDC issued a warning about flesh-eating bacteria vibrio vulnificus after six people died on the East Coast. Infectious disease experts explain the risks.
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 ...
Florida set a record number of cases of vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that can live in coastal waters and, in extreme cases, can lead to serious illness and limb amputation.
Myiasis in a cat's flesh Myiasis in a dog's flesh. Frederick William Hope coined the term myiasis in 1840 to refer to diseases resulting from dipterous larvae as opposed to those caused by other insect larvae (the term for this was scholechiasis). Hope described several cases of myiasis from Jamaica caused by unknown larvae, one of which ...
Swimmers beware! After nearly a dozen cases of necrotizing fasciitis have been reported this year in the US, here's everything you need to know about flesh-eating bacteria.