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.

Cindy Martinez, a former Marine and a mother of two, contracted a case of flesh-eating ... by the bacteria three years ago when she cut her leg while ziplining and swimming in a Georgia creek.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"We want to empower people to do this locally where they live," Aimee Copeland tells PEOPLE In the 14 years since Aimee Copeland’s life changed forever after a rare necrotizing fasciitis ...