Also called the "flesh eating bacteria, " strep A had sent Malyia into toxic shock.
Two days after being bitten the man admitted himself to a hospital emergency department having developed necrotising fasciitis - the disease dubbed by the media as the flesh eating bug after it killed 22 people in England and Wales in 1994.
But this form of staph is actually starting to look like the flesh-eating bacteria.
Not a typical one, of course, but one serviced by a wading pool of flesh-eating fish.
He said the study has also confirmed that the bristles on this "rather primitive flesh-eating dinosaur... really were feathers".
As with many illnesses, vulnerability to flesh-eating bacterial infections increases with age and underlying conditions that might compromise the immune system.
We call - you know, the common name is flesh-eating bacteria.
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.
Narratives about flesh-eating ghouls should remain scary but they can also remind audiences that we have an enormous capacity to adapt to new threats and overcome them.
Tekakwitha's canonization follows what has been judged a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church in the 2006 case of an American boy with a flesh-eating bug.
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.
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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And because, on some level, we know that besides being vehicles for sperm, our other important, if lesser, genetic imperative is to defend our loved ones from hordes of unthinking, flesh-eating metaphors for current social anxieties.
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Necrotizing fasciitis is a flesh-eating condition.
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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.
"I have seen parents eating the flesh of their dead children, " he says when confronted by Han at the soccer stadium.
These people certainly are zombies but not the brain-eating, flesh-craving kind.
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Scientists argue that because these substances have no effect if swallowed, then they should not pose any health risk to humans eating animals whose flesh has been treated in this way.
If he actually weighs 110kg he will be eating 3, 080 calories to maintain his extra flesh and he thus needs to make a permanent cut of 786 calories from his daily diet if he is to get back to the 70kg desideratum.
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