Category Archives: Flesh Eating Disease
Irish Guy Contracts Flesh Eating Disease in Hospital, Sues for Damages
Blake Haxton, the young guy who’s suing medical practitioners and hospitals in Ohio alleging that they failed to timely diagnose the fact that he contracted flesh-eating bacteria isn’t the only one who resorted to the courts to demand damages for his resulting condition. Here’s the story of a man from Ireland who sued the Portiuncula [...]
NOMA: Africa’s Flesh Eating Disease – BBC Video
This is probably the most disturbing video we’ve ever watched on Youtube. It’s a BBC report on NOMA, a gangrenous flesh-eating disease which can lead to the destruction of an infected person’s face. NOMA mainly attacks children under 12 particularly those between the ages of two and six years old.
Flesh Eating Disease in Canada
As mentioned in an earlier post, early diagnosis of the flesh-eating disease is very crucial; if it’s not diagnosed early, the person infected can die immediately (within 12-24 hours). However, early diagnosis may not be enough to save a person if complications prevent a sick person’s recovery. This appears to be the case of 33-year-old [...]
Stories: Eric Cornell, Nobel Laureate
Who can get infected with the flesh-eating bug? Ordinary people like you, me and Tanya Gludau. Celebrities like Michael Jackson. Olympic medalists like Australian swimmer Grant Hackett. And, as you will note when you read the interview below, Nobel Prize winners like Eric Cornell. Professor Cornell, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1995, [...]
Stories: Tanya Gludau
One of the things I want to do with this blog is to provide a space where we learn about this disease through the stories of people who were infected by it. One such story is the touching tale of Tanya Gludau, a chef who contracted the bacteria when she accidentally cut a finger while [...]
Michael Jackson’s Flesh Eating Virus
I decided to make a blog about the flesh-eating virus when I read in the news that Michael Jackson was stricken by it. Michael being Michael I went, “Huh! There goes the has-been King of Pop making up a disease for himself. A flesh-eating virus? Really? He must think he’s living in a science horror [...]
