Category Archives: Causes and Sources
Bath Salts Can Cause Flesh-Eating Infection
Despite its innocuous name, the extreme dangers of the new street drug known as “bath salts” are just beginning to emerge, and doctors from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have found a new menace.
Bananas With Flesh Eating Bacteria?
An email and text hoax warning consumers that they could contract a gruesome and fatal “skin-eating” disease from eating bananas has terrified Southern Africans in recent weeks.
Is Your Home Safe from MRSA or Flesh Eating Bug?
The BBC investigates the presence of germs in one British home. In particular they focused on whether it has MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus), salmonella, E-coli, and flu viruses which a scammy cleansing product claims it can all kill. The finding: they found none of these bugs in the kitchen and other parts of the [...]
Mysterious Flesh Eating Disease Infection
Some people we’ve featured in earlier stories know how they were infected by the flesh-eating bacteria. In some cases however, a victim (and his/her family) would be clueless as to how it got to them. This is one such story.
Australia’s Flesh Eating Brown Recluse Spiders?
Years ago, some guy (or maybe she’s a gal) wrote an email about the dangers of the brown recluse spider and how its bite can kill ya. Maybe the writer is really trying to be earnestly helpful or maybe s/he’s trying to scare some friends but boy has s/he managed to scare the bejesus out [...]
Do Spider Bites Cause Flesh Eating Disease?
If you were bitten by a spider, can you be infected with the flesh-eating disease? In an earlier post we wrote on this issue, we quoted a news report which notes that the bite of the white-tailed spider has the potential to develop flesh eating bacteria. Now here’s another news report on a study done [...]
