But this form of staph is actually starting to look like the flesh-eating bacteria.

NPR: Tracking a New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph

We call - you know, the common name is flesh-eating bacteria.

NPR: Tracking a New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph

People start calling it flesh-eating bacteria, that a few years - maybe more than a decade ago, when Jim Henson, the Muppets creator died, that was actually strep, which is a different bacteria.

NPR: Tracking a New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph

In other upcoming milestones, Copeland, whose story raised the nation's awareness of flesh-eating bacteria, will receive a service dog this summer, when she will work with amputee children in a wilderness camp.

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Copeland's struggle has been followed by many Americans as her family has shared the ups and downs of her battle against the "flesh-eating" bacteria.

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Dr. Buddy Creech, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said that Aeromonas hydrophila -- which is "remarkably common in the water and in the environment" -- is one of many bacteria that can cause a flesh-eating process.

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