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A young boy was rushed to the hospital after he contracted a flesh-eating bacteria at a Maryland beach. Brittany Carey shared two graphic images of her son's leg where the bacteria began eating away at his flesh in three spots. Carey said in a Facebook post on Saturday that her parents had taken her son out for a beach day off the coast of Ocean City on June 23. She wrote that her son had a great time swimming until June 24 when she 'started noticing little spots developing all over his body'. 'Tuesday morning there were open wounds developing...

Quake that triggered Indonesian tsunami affected Japan's hot springs An earthquake off Sumatra that triggered a devastating tsunami in December last year caused changes in the water levels and temperatures of some hot springs in Japan that are 6,000 kilometers away from its focus, seismologists have concluded. The finding has demonstrated the scale and intensity of the earthquake that left thousands of people dead in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and other countries. A group of seismologists led by Tottori University Prof. Ryohei Nishida will present the results of their research at the 2005 Joint Meeting for Earth and Planetary Science...