Flesh-eating germ rare, especially for the healthy
May 17, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) ― Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be too, her father says, because of the spreading infection. She has a rare condition, called necrotizing fasciitis, in which marauding bacteria run rampant thro...