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07/10/2018 / By Carol Anderson

Flesh-eating bacteria thrives on your suffering; the chemicals you release when in excruciating pain actually feed them

If the word flesh-eating bacteria isn’t scary enough, try bacteria which find happiness – or more accurately, satiation – when you’re in pain. It appears that the popular flesh-eating bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes does not only cause strep throat but also initiates a disease called necrotizing fasciitis. According to previous research, a certain type of toxin is being released […]

04/19/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Warning signs that your wound might be infected with flesh-eating bacteria

Everybody gets a wound at some point in their life. Usually, all that’s needed to make it better is a bit of antibiotic cream and an adhesive bandage. This works for your run-of-the-mill scrape. However, in some unfortunate instances, that wound may actually be infected with flesh-eating bacteria. Just as the name implies, flesh-eating bacteria […]

09/30/2017 / By JD Heyes

Woman dies of flesh-eating bacteria after wading through flood waters in storm-ravaged Houston

Earlier this month we reported that as flood waters receded in storm-ravaged Texas and Florida from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma respectively the risk of contracting tissue-eating bacteria was much higher. And while that story dealt primarily with brain-eating bacteria, the danger that other micro-sized flesh consumers could emerge was laid out. It now appears as […]

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