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To: ARCADIA

Sounds like drug resistant staph. A danger in hospitals. According to another story it can kill one in four. This article is way short on information.


8 posted on 01/22/2006 9:38:33 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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Actually the flesh eating bacteria is a particularly virulent strep infection. It gives you a condition called necrotizing fasciitis, where the infection spreads under the skin along muscles

Resistant staph is also a problem, but produces a different clinical syndrome.


19 posted on 01/22/2006 10:48:35 AM PST by Mom MD
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