A 24-year-old girl from Georgia, Aimee Copeland, is suffering from a very rare flesh-eating disease. She has been in the hospital for 11 days and they are amputating her left leg and removed her abdomen. She was riding a homemade zip line, it snapped and she fell to the ground leaving her with a cut open calf. The bacteria that got into the wound caused necrotizing fasciitis, a deadly infection. Her calf was closed with 22 staples, even after they tried getting this germ that rarely causes flesh-eating disease. Aimee is alive but she is still in critical condition, breathing from a ventilator for oxygen. But because of the breathing tube she cannot talk.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/girl-flesh-eating-disease-remember-events/story?id=16342276#.T7E5hejOzNo
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