New Cases of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Hit the Southeast
- Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:00pm by
Liz Klimas
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There are now three reported cases of patients with a flesh-eating bacterial infection causing necrotising fasciitis in the southeastern United States. One is a student, another a mother of newborn twins, and the third a landscaper.
Doctors have said the cases are not related to each other.
(Related: Flesh-eating germ rare, especially for health)
The first was Georgia graduate student Aimee Copeland, who lost both feet and hands. The 24-year-old, miraculously is now breathing on her own and in even such a serious state of physical change, her father reports she is “cracking jokes, speaking frankly, displaying her usual early morning grumpiness.” Copeland became infected with the bacteria after she fell while zip-lining and cut her leg.
Aimee Copeland (Photo: Facebook)
Next was a mother from South Carolina, whose case though serious, is less severe than Copeland’s and caused by a different bacterium. Lana Kuykendall, 36, gave birth to healthy twins at an Atlanta hospital last week. When the new family of four returned to their home in Piedmont, the mother – who is also a paramedic – noticed a pain and rash on her left leg.
Lana-Kuykendall (Photo via 11 Alive News)
As the spot began to spread, Kuykendall went to a local hospital, where she has since undergone several surgeries but was improving Thursday.
“She’s stable,” Darren Kuykendall, the woman’s husband, told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Watch this Fox News report on Kuykendall’s condition:
The third reported case, according to Atlanta’s 11 Alive News, is 33-year-old Bobby Vaughn. Vaughn of Cartersville, Ga., is just down the hall from Copeland in the hospital. So far, 11 Alive reports, Vaughn has had five surgeries that have removed two pounds of infected flesh, and he still has come reconstructive work ahead of him.
Bobby Vaughn (Photo: 11 Alive News)
Compared to the two other women, Vaughn said it makes his condition seem much better. He said he is grateful he and the two women are alive.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (60)
sillyfreshness
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:06amReally makes you wonder why this crap is now becoming so common. Possible military bio-weapon engineering perhaps? Who knows, but I wouldn’t put it past anyone anymore.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:09amMy first thought, too. Weaponized bacteria and these are some of the early “trials”.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:46amToo many antibiotics in our foods and medical systems. Big Agra and big Pharma are slowly killing us all with the help of our sadistic legislators. Monoculture farms and hospitals are churning out super bugs resistant to all known antibiotics.
Report Post »fb274
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:15amResearch – caused by strep/staff bacteria. I can be in the ground. Or, with me, a child bit me on the arm who apparently was a carrier. Sometimes Rx does not stop this infection, but coupled with natural anti-bacteria/anti-viral essential oils did the trick for me. Continued use of oils internally and topically for a few months. Didn’t realize the real dangers until researching.
Report Post »StayAtHomeDad
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:55pmFORABETTERAMERICA
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:36pm
Hidden_Lion,
The story states only the pregnant woman was in the hospital prior to the illness. The other two went to the hospital for treatment.
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No, you are absolutely wrong. The young woman who BTW for whatever reason is getting so much media coverage about this, DID indeed visit the hospital a few days before going in a second time. Get your facts straight.
I don’t see why the media has latched onto this story so securely. It‘s almost as though they’re so ignorant that they are unaware that this virus has been around for quite some time now. The Blaze included. I like Glenn Beck, been a loyal follower since CNN but a few things piss me off. Number one – the typos, often crappy writing, and overall it’s the same coverage as MSM but a lot less, mixed in with crap that isn’t important. “See this .223 caliber revolver shoot through Jesus.”
That’s the crap they run on here. Let’s not even mention the Mormon thing, that bothers me…and even worse than that, their whole “birthed thing is true but a lost cause.”. Sorry, first post, had to get that all out there! Btw – I used to be a Catholic..was raised that way. Realized its essentially a cult and am now baptist. Do your homework Glenn and ignore Pat G.
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:27amWell, the guy’s pretty busy. Why don’t you run a website?
Report Post »Really_O
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:43amIf you are going to call some one ignorant you should not show yourself as ignorant.
This is a BACTERIA (as it states in the title of the article) not a virus as you posted. Get a clue, your entire post is a wash. Stay at home and off the computer. LOL.
Report Post »justin.blake
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:24am@Stayathome…“lets not even mention the mormon thing” ??? Really? You had to go there? Of course you did clarify things when you said you were raised Catholic but are now Baptist because Catholicism is a cult. What in the world does that have to with flesh eating bacteria? You Sir, just have an axe to grind and frankly, look more like a fool than anything with that post. With the rigid dogma and hate filled rhetoric you spew, you look more like a cult member than anyone else. If you don’t like the Blaze, go find somewhere else to read your news.
Report Post »spacepiston
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:34pmI find it laughable that you have a problem w/ Mormonism while touting your abandonment of the One True Faith in favor of more recently conjured up baptist beliefs…. Even through the lens of history it’s clear that Catholicism has always been the church founded by Christ and contains the fullness of faith, why do you think it’s hated so?? It‘s the largest religion in the world yet it’s a ‘cult’? The world has always hated the Catholic church just as it has always hated Christ. The devil hates the Catholic church more than anything, you see those seeds sown in your own anti-catholic beliefs.
Report Post »osama bencluckin
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:10pmUmmm i believe id take my chances with the mexicans
Report Post »HuskerConserve
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:09pmIts not only 3 people with this bacteria. People in Omaha have it also….
Report Post »http://www.omaha.com/article/20120521/NEWS01/120529946#6-in-omaha-fought-flesh-eating-bug
Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 2:05amClicked on the link and…it’s been yanked. “We cannot find the story you are looking for”.
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 10:07pmWhat is this crap? Bacteria? Did government terrorists like Pelosi, Obama, Reid, Frank release it every time they open their traps? Probably.
Report Post »MatrixRedPill
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:54pmWould TSA be passing germs around ? They touch everyone, every where.
Report Post »NC
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:49pmI’ve had a similar bacteria while I was in intensive care following a fall which broke ribs and collapsed a lung. The bacteria ate through my penis into my urethrae. It was caused by a lack of hygiene while in IC (I was in a drug induced coma). The hole was discovered by a loved one cleaning me.
It did heal and led to a case of peronies disease. A medical malpractice attorney was consulted and said while I did receive poor care and a case could be made, all the hospital had to say in court was “we saved his life, sure had had this flesh eating bacteria, we cured it, and he is alive today”. Case closed.
NC (maybe later I’ll explain the NDE I had at the same hospital)
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:27pmI wonder if pelosi contracted a case of it on her face…it would explain a lot.
Report Post »Olnean
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:42pmCrazy thing about life… None of us make it out alive.
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:33pm“Doctors have said the cases are not related to each other.”
But they are all related cases. Every one was contracted in the hospitals where they went for medical care. Doctors do not want to let that get out now do they?
Report Post »Barb
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:42pmNo better truth than your statement!!! That’s the bottom line…………..
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:37pm…
From personal experience; Many times, I’ve noticed that health care workers, doctors, dentists, nurses, assistants, only wear gloves and masks to protect themselves.
Many of them don’t even try to protect us from patient to patient transferred germs.
I’ve seen them wear the same gloves and masks from room to room, patient to patient. They touch everything in site with their gloves, then touch their masks, and not change their gloves or masks.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:28pm…
Report Post »Is the Government behind this bacteria, the flu virus, and numerous other bacteria and viruses?
In my opinion, yes. To reduce the World’s population, and to create panic and chaos.
marjorie faye
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 10:41pmThis flesh-eating bacteria has been reported for a long time. It’s not new.
Report Post »HelloWorld
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:19pmSame hospital – 2 doors down. Better start looking at asceptic technique or lack there of!
Report Post »MattO
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:56pmThis is not as uncommon as it’s reported. Now my son is a victim to this bacteria, in Florida.
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:45pmLook into the benefits of bentonite clay as a possible relief, and some prayer.
Report Post »friedclouds
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:50amI am praying for your son, Serum
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:29amMATTO – I hope your son is able to make a full recovery without much long term damage. God bless you and your family.
Report Post »MattO
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:19pmThank you for your kind words. Since my wife is a RN and has some experience with MRSA, and while my son is on short term disability, now for over two months he decide to travel from IL and get advice from his Mom and her colleagues in Florida. Today we took our son to the ER. He had developed another region the size of a baseball within just 4 days. The Dr. decided to wait a bit longer before cutting it open and added another antibiotic. We’ll see what happens the next 24 hours.
Report Post »RealityFix
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:54pm3 cases all acquired in Georgia, home of the CDC.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:44pmI, personally, would start with the idea… that coincidence rules out accident… that commonality links cause… that rarity of previous occurrences rules out Nature… and then start looking for a Man Made Link & Reason!
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:58pmBacteria warfare comes to mind.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:05pmI read an article that said this this bacteria is pretty common in nature – as long as it doesnt get a direct pathway to internal organs it doesnt hurt us. Something like 250 people a year get this thing? I bet most of them get it at the public cesspools, otherwise known as hospitals.
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:43pmNot only does this nightmare seem to be growing, antibiotic resistant staph infections seem to be on the rise. Our society has over used antibiotics for people and in livestock production, not to mention the antibiotics in dish detergent, soap, lotion, hand cream, etc, etc. Add to that the amount of bleach in cleaning supplies. I wonder if our immune system is being harmed by all of this now our bodies can not fight off these horrible infections.
I have a family member that cleans everything with a mixture of bleach and detergent from can goods, milk/juice cartons, walls, dishes basically anything that will not be destroyed if it comes into contact with bleach it gets washed before it gets put in the cabinet. Needless to say this person is always sick with every cold/flu bug that comes around.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:08pmdoctors give away antibiotics like it is candy – mostly to make the patient go away and in order to avoid malpractice lawsuits
Report Post »ConnConservative
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:52amAnti-Biotics are rampant in our meats and dairy products, so no wonder why we are resistant. Big Food- Monsanto- big Dairy and big beef are literally KILLING US!
Report Post »Grow your own, buy organic and local foods ONLY and get off your butts and exercise!
The-Monk
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:40pmThis sounds a lot like a Hospital Acquired Infection. I picked one up fixing a computer at a very nasty nursing home a few years ago and almost lost a finger tip.
Report Post »RANGER1965
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:36pmDisinfect often and early. Unless it’s a really deep cut, this will likley prevent this sort of infection.. Don‘t ignore a wound just because it’s shallow, or not painful.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:33pmI am this [ ] close to thinking we may be up the poopie creek without a canoe.I get nervous just being around someone who sneezes and doesn’t cover thier mouth,and whats concerning is alot of these things are possibly intentional………………….one example Cancer
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:19pmI’ve started carrying a little tiny bottle of tea tree oil in my car and purse to put on cuts or scrapes where ever I am. I’ve always had it at home and have used it for about 25 years as our disinfectant but only recently began carrying it everywhere. Other than carrying around some EverClear, which would burn like crazy, it’s the best thing I can think of. Any docs want to comment?
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:52pmNot going to comment as a doctor but as someone who upon occasion uses natural remedies. Tea-tree oil, colloidal silver, Plantain poultice, Bay leaf oil all are said to help….however, this is NOT something you want to mess with!
The mother of twins got medical attention very quickly because she is a doctor herself and recognized there was a problem brewing, perhaps that could be why she was never as serious ill as the first young lady.
If you think there is a problem, don’t wait to go to the doctor! When in doubt, check it out.
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:35pmI use those items a well, check into the benefits of bentonite clay, I love this stuff!
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:35amALEXPHANTOM – Yes, of course I did not mean do not get medical attention if anything seems amiss. Absolutely do that!! I just meant as a handy disinfectant that is easy to carry around to have to use immediately upon getting a cut. I too am a firm user of alternative medicine but know enough about my body to know when it’s time to involve a MD and which things require dual care. I guess I did not word my initial post clearly – sorry.
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:18pmLife is brief and then we die. Thanks be to Jesus Christ for life everlasting for believers.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:34pmAMAN brother in Christ , GOD want call me home till it s my time and am always ready to go home
Report Post »OhSnappage
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:15pmHow are people contracting this??
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hidden_lion
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:24pmMy bet is the hospitals are not as clean as they should be.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:11pmThere was a Pastor that caught the sickness from a salt water catfish fin – months in the hospital – still affected his health throughout his life – Doctor told the pastor, ” Should have had some betadine with you when you went fishing.”
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:36pmI got a bad infection that made its way into my lymphatic system from the “Velcro” like teeth on a Stripped Bass. I now carry Tea-tree oil while fishing. I wonder (since there are many cases of bacterial infections caused by fish tanks and wild fish) if all these antibiotics that make way into our waters are the cause? Powerful elitists, think they can control too many things and the little people are the ones who always pay for it. I for one have had enough of these type of people.
BTW Tea-Tree Oil Is a fantastic natural product for many many uses, everyone should be using it IMHO. Cuts and scraps heal at least twice as fast in my experience.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:08pmI have taken care of several patients with this in my state.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:22pmI wonder is the hospitals in Georgia are not spreading this. Both had symptoms after their hospital visit.
Report Post »ForABetterAmerica
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:36pmHidden_Lion,
Report Post »The story states only the pregnant woman was in the hospital prior to the illness. The other two went to the hospital for treatment.
sldjulius
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:29pmForabetteramerica:
Report Post »I read the story on that girl about a week ago, and it seemed like she got a bad laceration, went to the hospital to be treated, and the wound started to fester so she went back. I don’t know about the guy. Hospitals are the breeding ground for flesh eating bacteria; always have been.
As a hostess in a restaurant I seated a family coming from a funeral of a perfectly healthy man in his sixties who went in for a colonoscopy and contracted it internally.
amerbur
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:10amI do outpatient wound care so I see quite a few of these compared to what most people see. I would say most that I have seen started outside of the hospital.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:06pmYou need to take the smallest cut, very seriously…… It’s frightening ……
Report Post »SaintzOfAk
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:35pmSounds like “POTUS and the Progressives” should take their nonstop tour of Fascist terror on a vacation to Georgia. the Emperor is naked anyhow, i think a hike through the forest would be a Woooonderful! suggestion.
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