Etiket: flesheating
Do flesh-eating bacteria exist, like the one that “attacked” Jennifer Barlow?
09/07/2023 On at 7:14 p.m. CEST There are no flesh-eating bacteria as such. But there is a group that can cause necrotizing fasciitis that causes amputation and even death. A…
Irene (20) van Terschelling became very ill due to a flesh-eating bacteria: ‘I texted my friends: I am sick, but very strangely ill’
Irene Schotman sits between the hugs she received in the hospital. Photo: Neeke Smit Irene is sitting on the couch in her childhood home on the island. It is the…
Doctors burn center Beverwijk want more awareness of ‘flesh-eating bacteria’
The so-called flesh-eating bacteria is becoming more common in the Netherlands. That’s what experts from burn center Beverwijk say. “We suspect that there were twice as many cases nationwide last…
Young people die in UMCG from infection and flesh-eating bacteria. Doctors: ‘We are used to something, but we are also impressed by this’
The Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria accounts for most cases of necrotizing soft tissue infection. Since mid-December, around ten very ill patients have been admitted to the UMCG in Groningen after an…