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Flesh-eating bacteria: Woman says she almost lost hand to flesh-eating bacteria after getting manicure at nail salon
A Tennessee woman says she went to a nail salon to get a manicure, but left with a flesh-eating bacteria. She even claims the infection almost caused her to lose her hand. Jayne Sharp told CBS affiliate WTVF she “got poked in the thumb” earlier this year while getting a manicure at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Jazzy …
Florida woman says dad died of flesh-eating bacteria less than 48 hours after entering water
A Tennessee man died just 48 hours after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria from waters in Florida after his daughter says the hospital he was treated at ignored her warnings that he had contracted necrotizing fasciitis. Cheryl Bennett Wiygul, a resident of Okaloosa County, said her parents had come down from Memphis to spend several days with …
Flesh-eating bacteria kills a Memphis man who visited Florida waterways
“Flesh Eating Bacteria sounds like an urban legend. Let me assure you that it is not. It took my Dad’s life,” Cheryl Bennett Wiygul wrote Wednesday in a Facebook post confirmed by CNN affiliate WCYB. Vibrio causes an estimated 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the United States every year, according to the US Centers …
A 12-year-old girl contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while on vacation in Florida
At first 12-year-old Kylei Brown and her family couldn’t figure out just what was going on with her. The family, from Indiana, arrived in Destin earlier this month on vacation. After a day spent frolicking on a beach, Kylei woke up with an awful pain in her lower leg. “Monday, we wake up to begin …
