necrotizing fasciitis

It's the stuff of nightmares — a small injury that turns deadly as a result of the unbridled proliferation of a common bacterium, such as Streptococcus sp.

When we think of the word cure, we think of it as the end when, in fact, it is often the end of a beginning.

Necrotizing fasciitis, which literally translated means "inflammation of the fascia (connective tissue) causing cell death," is the proper medical term for what is colloquially known as "flesh-eat

The quick and frightening death of a man who contracted a kind of flesh-eating bacterium after cleaning crab pots has made