58-year-old Louise Fawcett survives flesh-eating bug infection from garden soil in Chesterfield, Yorkshire.
58-year-old Louise Fawcett is "lucky to be alive" after catching a flesh-eating bug from her flower beds. The vision rehabilitation officer from Chesterfield, Yorkshire, believes she got a tiny cut on her right foot from rubble in her garden and suspects the bug entered her bloodstream from the soil. After three days in intensive care and weeks in the hospital, she is now learning to walk again.
June 23, 2024
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