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Necrotizing Fasciitis: Life After Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Scary Ordeal

The infection leaves survivors without limbs, scarred, and coping with reduced mobility—but happy to have survived, says Casey Schwartz.

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UTMB-Galveston, Ashok K. Chopra, Ph.D., and Dr. Leon Bromberg / AP Photo

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