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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]
Flesh-eating bacteria syndrome; Flinders Island spotted fever; Flying squirrel typhus; Folliculitis; Fort Bragg fever; Fournier gangrene; Fournier gangrene of the penis or scrotum; Frambösie; Furunculosis
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.
A community is rallying around 13-year-old Trey Lauren of Monroe, who's now battling flesh-eating bacteria at Seattle Children's Hospital, Q13FOX reports. Tray fell and cut his knee at a birthday ...
A 29-year-old man gets tooth pain and almost dies of necrotizing fasciitis caused by the bacteria Streptococcus intermedius and Peptostreptococcus; a female financial adviser gets fatigue, joint pain, mental confusion, hair loss, and muscle weakness for over three years from Lyme disease after spending time in the woodlands; a seven-year-old ...
Kylei's ordeal comes just one week after an alarming report published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine suggested a "flesh-eating" bacteria called vibrio vulnificus may be spreading to ...
[2] [4] Examples of skin conditions treated with ampicillin-sulbactam are moderate to severe diabetic foot infections and type 1 Necrotizing fasciitis, commonly referred to as "flesh-eating bacteria". [9]