And now he's hoping for the recovery of 24 year old Aimee Copeland, a Georgia ... "The flesh-eating disease" is technically necrotizing fasciitis and can be caused by several kinds of bacteria.

Doctors’ attempts to combat rare, aggressive bacteria that have infected a University of West Georgia graduate student ... of her battle against the “flesh-eating” bacteria.

Aimee Copeland on Tuesday reached another milestone by being upgraded from critical to serious condition at the Georgia hospital ... a condition caused by flesh-eating bacteria.

Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting aggressive flesh-eating bacteria, was informed by her father Thursday that the doctors would have to amputate her hands and her ...

Georgia and the Carolinas. Officials are warning residents that hurricane flooding has spread the flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus to inland regions where it isn’t usually a threat.

Aimee Copeland lost all her limbs to flesh-eating bacteria -- then she met her soulmate. Facebook/Aimee Copeland s All Terrain Georgia In 2012, Aimee Copeland lost all four limbs in a zip-lining ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF ... The veteran contracted a rare and fast-moving flesh-eating bacteria that left her right leg swelling and bright red. Shortly after her trip, Barlow’s brother ...

Imagine a tiny cut turning into a life-threatening ordeal. Along the coasts, a deadly flesh-eating bacteria is making this ...

When she was 24, Copeland, a Georgia native, contracted ferocious flesh-eating bacteria from a gash on her left leg after being plunged into the water during a zip-lining accident. Doctors managed ...

A flesh-eating bacteria that kills roughly 20% of its ... In the late 1980s infections further north than Georgia were rare. By 2018 they were being regularly reported as far north as Philadelphia.

In the wake of Hurricane Idalia, health officials warned of a invisible threat in the lingering floodwaters: Vibrio vulnificus bacteria ... deadly type of flesh-eating bacterium "shouldn't ...