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Detroit boy loses leg after contracting flesh-eating bacteria

Detroit boy loses leg after contracting flesh-eating bacteria

A 12-year-old Michigan boy is battling illness after being infected by flesh-eating bacteria that caused him to lose most of his left leg.Dakarai Moore, Jr. was an active child until August 11, when he developed a fever and a greenish-colored rash on the bottom of his feet, Fox 2 Detroit reported."My son was complaining just saying his legs were hurting," Charmaine Norman, his mother, told the news channel.


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Boy loses his leg to flesh-eating bacteria that decimated his left calf and thigh

Boy loses his leg to flesh-eating bacteria that decimated his left calf and thigh

A 12-year-old boy has had his left leg amputated after it was decimated by flesh-eating bacteria.Dakarai Moore Jr, from Detroit, Michigan, was playing sport last Thursday when he felt a strange swelling feeling behind his knee and a tightness in his calf.Within days, he was hospitalized with blistering sores over his leg.


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12-year-old Detroiter loses leg to flesh eating bacteria

12-year-old Detroiter loses leg to flesh eating bacteria

Bacteria is everywhere and it's inevitable (and usually not deadly), but when those microorganisms begin to eat away at flesh, it causes panic.This is the case with what happened to week ago to Dakarai Moore Jr. who contracted Necrotizing Fasciitis, a bacteria that kills the skin cells and tissue of a human body and can be fatal if not treated properly.The boy's mother told Fox 2 that he'd been complaining that his legs were hurting, and "there was a really tight feeling and his knees were kind of puffy."