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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Scientists Discover Different Flesh-Eating Disease Bacteria Strains Share Features : popsci





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Scientists Discover Different Flesh-Eating Disease Bacteria Strains Share Features

Scientists Discover Different Flesh-Eating Disease Bacteria Strains Share Features
Scientists Discover Different Flesh-Eating Disease Bacteria Strains Share Features
NIAID via Wikimedia Commons Group A Streptococcus bacteria on white blood cells.This group of bacteria causes both mild illnesses such as strep throat and potentially fatal ones such as flesh-eating disease.Scientists have made a discovery about the nature of the group of bacteria responsible for flesh-eating disease, toxic shock syndrome, and strep throat that might eventually lead to a vaccine for these ailments.


moreover from gizmodo

A Vaccine for Flesh-Eating Bacteria Is Now in Sight

A Vaccine for Flesh-Eating Bacteria Is Now in Sight
A Vaccine for Flesh-Eating Bacteria Is Now in Sight
Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria.(Image: CDC)Researchers at the University of California San Diego have taken a significant step forward in the effort to develop a vaccine against the bacteria responsible for strep throat, toxic shock syndrome, and flesh-eating disease.Group A Streptococcus, or group A strep, are nasty breed of bacteria that can cause an assortment of infections.


furthermore ibtimes

What Is Necrotizing Fasciitis? Flesh-Eating Bacteria Nearly Leaves 13-Year-Old California Boy Without A Hand

What Is Necrotizing Fasciitis? Flesh-Eating Bacteria Nearly Leaves 13-Year-Old California Boy Without A Hand
What Is Necrotizing Fasciitis? Flesh-Eating Bacteria Nearly Leaves 13-Year-Old California Boy Without A Hand
A teenage boy is thankful to have his hand after he nearly lost it to a flesh-eating bacteria infection.The 13-year-old boy from Visalia, California developed a hand infection after he nicked his hand on his football helmet.His mother, Camil Flores, shared an image of her son's hand on her Facebook page after he had received surgery for the infection, ABC News reported Wednesday.


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