flesh-eating disease

1 Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, necrotizing fasciitis is a flesh-eating disease caused by a rare bacterial infection, which develops after bacteria enters the body through cuts, scrapes, burns or insect bites.

2 Necrotizing fasciitis is a flesh-eating disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).5 The agency issued a health advisory earlier this month to inform healthcare providers about an increasing number of fatal Vibrio vulnificus infections.

3 Many of the infections have been due to Aeromonas bacteria, which live in brackish water and can cause severe skin reactions ranging from mild cellulitis — red, swollen and painful skin — to necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating disease.

4 Cole experienced a near fatal flesh-eating disease infection after a routine procedure to remove uterine fibroids in 2006.

5 The most dangerous species, Vibrio vulnificus, causes flesh-eating disease, but these infections are considered rare.

6 Invasive strep can trigger skin infections like flesh-eating disease, lower airway infections like pneumonia, or streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, an immune reaction that can lead to organ failure.

7 But iGAS occurs when the bacteria spread in the body and cause severe infection, such as necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease), toxic shock syndrome, or sepsis.