Friday May 9 | The Galveston County Daily News
Flesh-eating story hard to swallow
The stories come every year, like summer horror flicks, when Gulf water gets warm and spring showers fall inland. via The Galveston County Daily News
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Flesh Eating Bacteria Forum & PollsMonday May 5 | Irish Independent
What is: Necrotising fasciitis?
Necrotising fasciitis is a rare but serious bacterial infection of the skin and soft tissue that causes tissue destruction and results in serious complications. via Irish Independent
Thursday Apr 24 | Kndu.com
Kennewick Man Contracts Flesh-Eating Bacteria
“He'll be looking forward most definitely to a pint of Guinness”
"When I'd found out that he'd actually been to the walk-in clinic and medivacced to Harborview , it was kind of a shock," says Jim Sedgwick, Paul Kelly's friend. via Kndu.com
Monday Apr 14 | Telegraph.co.uk
Inquiry into deaths of three new mothers
“This is not something you expect in a country like Britain. Maybe in the Third World but not here.”
An inquiry is being held after the death of three new mothers at a hospital where 10 women died in labour between 2002 and 2005. via Telegraph.co.uk
Saturday Apr 12 | The Daily Sentinel
DELUCA: Grandma relives a simple, but not necessarily happy, time
“Yes, of course it's true that I am 58 years old and yet lived during a time that I never heard of anything like instant coffee or electric typewriters or yogurt, because my parents were time travelers. We moved around a lot.”
I tell myself I shouldn't do it, but being the cockeyed optimist that I am, I think, "Oh Karla, don't be a crank, you'll probably love it, just like the other 52 recipients on the e-mail list!" And then, I open ... via The Daily Sentinel
Apr 10, 2008 | Feministing
Not Oprah's Book Club: Complications
April 10, 2008 "Woooow. Come over here Court. Come look at this," my roommate Yana would holler from across our tiny dorm room. via Feministing
Apr 5, 2008 | Tri-cityherald.com
Community bands together to help ill Kennewick man
“This disease was literally eating his tissue and his muscle”
Paul Kelly lost his left forearm and part of his leg to an invasive strep infection last month, and friends, family and community members are coming together to help the Kennewick man and his family. via Tri-cityherald.com
Mar 18, 2008 | QPodder
TOF 50 Staph, Bath and Beyond: The MRSA Symposium
Submitted by TheOccasionalFag on Mon, 2008-03-17 13:48. Subscribe to TheOccasionalFag in iTunes David b was out of town on business during a symposium at the New York City GLBT Center on antibiotic resistant ... via QPodder
Mar 10, 2008 | Baltimore Examiner
Expert: Fear of big-name diseases is overblown
“Because MRSA is resistant to most antibiotics, it is important that we all work together - ' hospitals and health care providers, schools, and community members - ' to prevent the spread of this and other infections”
Flesh-eating bacteria, tuberculosis resistant to multiple drugs and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, aka MRSA - ' the names fill us with the dread of catching some vile disease for which there is no ... via Baltimore Examiner
Mar 8, 2008 | Salt Lake Tribune
Flesh-eating bacteria on rise?
“We do believe it's underreported”
The University of Utah's Intermountain Burn Center is seeing more patients infected with what is popularly known as "flesh-eating bacteria," and doctors there aren't sure why. via Salt Lake Tribune
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