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Researchers Find New ‘Flesh Eating’ Bacteria Strain Could be Spreading Worldwide
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Scientists have warned that a new strain of a ‘flesh-eating’ bug is spreading globally, and has contributed to a rise in disease cases in the UK.
The group A streptococcus bacteria typically causes relatively minor infections, such as tonsilitis, and is treated readily with antibiotics.
However, in severe cases of invasive infection, the bacteria can cause necrotising fasciitis – a condition which destroys and eats away at body tissue, and causes pneumonia and blood poisoning.
Scientists investigating the bacteria realised there had been a rise in group A streptococcus infections over an 11-year period between 1998 and 2009 that were linked to the new, more potent sub-type, named emm89.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/07/researchers-find-new-flesh-eating-bacteria-strain-could-be-spreading-worldwide/
