Flesh Eating Bacteria News

The Memorial Day weekend is here and families and friends are preparing to spend time on lakes Sinclair and Oconee.

Health officials have issued an alert after the deaths of two injecting drug users who had contracted the flesh-eating bug necrotising fasciitis.

Aimee Copeland , the 25-year-old who lost her hands, both feet and her entire right leg to flesh-eating bacteria a year ago, has received two new bionic hands.

Her name is Aimee Copeland and at just 25 years old her life changed dramatically.

A young father-of-three is learning to walk again after a terrifying battle with the deadly flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis.

Aimee Copeland, the 25-year-old who lost her hands, both feet and her entire right leg to flesh-eating bacteria a year ago, has received two new bionic hands.

Aimee Copeland, the 25-year-old Gwinnett County woman who lost her hands and legs to a flesh-eating bacteria, is now getting used to a bionic hand.

Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, and not as a result of a flesh-eating bacteria, the remaining members of the US band said.

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The surviving members of the metal band Slayer said that the guitarist Jeff Hanneman had died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, not from an infection of flesh-eating bacteria.

The heavy metal guitarist succumbed to liver failure in a Californian hospital on May 2 aged 49 - two years after contracting rare flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis after being bitten by a spider - and the band have now revealed the cause of death was actually alcohol-related cirrhosis, a condition he only became aware of in the days ... (more)

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection.

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection.

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection.

The Slayer guitarist, who co-founded the band with pal Kerry King in 1981, died of liver failure at a hospital near his California home.

Aimee Copeland, the 25-year-old Gwinnett County woman who lost her hands and legs to a flesh-eating bacteria, remains full of gratitude nearly a year after her illness.