Oct 13 2013
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This is just rough. A man who was setting crab traps in the saltwater Halifax River last week is the latest victim…
Oct 13 2012
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Redditor johnboy9210 retrieved a football from a stagnant koi pond one day and contracted necrotizing fasciitis, the…
May 15 2012
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Some criminal masterminds in Florida thought that stealing equipment from the Florida Hospital Center for Diagnostic…
Apr 10 2012
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You first notice a bump — a tender, cherry red bruise. Over the next 12 hours, the center of this painful spot on…
Dec 4 2011
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Necrotizing fasciitis-infected bananas have been the boogeyman of potassium lovers and people who enjoy checking…
Apr 17 2011
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Honey is pretty benign to people, but to smaller organisms it means sweet, sweet death. Honey's historically been…
Apr 5 2011
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Recently scientists staged a demonstration in which flesh-eating bacteria died off in droves when placed on a copper…
Mar 3 2011
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Necrotising Fasciitis. Flesh-eating Bacteria. It is some serious shit, and sci-fi writer (and Biology PhD) Peter…