Flesh-eating germ...
Secluded Islands
10-03-2006, 16:45
dont cut your finger on a wheelchair... :eek:
DUNN, N.C. - North Carolina health officials are investigating the death of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a nursing home.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11752394/
IL Ruffino
10-03-2006, 16:50
HOLY CRAP. I was just about to post this story on here.. I was gonna use the title "Killer Wheelchair" tho.. :fluffle:
Secluded Islands
10-03-2006, 16:54
HOLY CRAP. I was just about to post this story on here.. I was gonna use the title "Killer Wheelchair" tho.. :fluffle:
lol, that would have been a better title...
The Tribes Of Longton
10-03-2006, 17:12
Go Necrotizing Fasciitis! Yet another reason to love the streptococcus genus.
Drunk commies deleted
10-03-2006, 17:33
Don't antibiotics work on these Flesh-Eating bacteria?
The Tribes Of Longton
10-03-2006, 17:36
Don't antibiotics work on these Flesh-Eating bacteria?
Yep. IV penicillin does the job IIRC.
Go Necrotizing Fasciitis! Yet another reason to love the streptococcus genus.
Everybody loves S. pyogenes, nobody loves S. pneumoniae. :(
The Tribes Of Longton
10-03-2006, 17:50
Everybody loves S. pyogenes, nobody loves S. pneumoniae. :(
Aww, fass. I love S. pneumoniae. In fact, one of my flatmates loved it so much that he had it! A relapse gave him pneumothorax and everything. :fluffle: