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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, Aimee Copeland lost all four limbs in a zip-lining accident that resulted in a flesh-eating bacterial infection ... a 95% match on OkCupid,” the Georgia native told People, referring ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The flesh around an open wound can die, which is why Vibrio vulnificus is called a “flesh-eating” bacteria ... Once, the bacteria were rare north of Georgia, but they have been found ...

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 ...