Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill Within 24 Hours Returns in Some Areas of the US

The return of the flesh-eating bacterium isn't the title of a terrible sci-fi film; it's an accurate description of what's going on along Galveston's shore.

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), commonly known as a flesh-eating disease (bacteria), causes the destruction of soft tissue in the body. It's a deadly sickness that appears out of nowhere and spreads quickly. In the afflicted area, red or purple skin, intense pain, fever, and vomiting are common symptoms. The limbs and perineum are the most often afflicted regions.

Necrotizing fasciitis is an uncommon but dangerous condition. However, many patients with necrotizing fasciitis are healthy before contracting the illness.

The infection usually enters the body through a skin breach, such as a cut or a burn. Poor immunological function, such as that caused by diabetes or cancer, obesity, alcoholism, intravenous drug use, and peripheral vascular disease, are also risk factors.

It does not usually transmit from person to person. Depending on the infecting organism, the illness is divided into four kinds. More than one species of bacteria is involved in 55 to 80 percent of cases. Up to a third of cases are caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Medical imaging is frequently useful in confirming a diagnosis.

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