Flesh-Eating Disease: Student Shows Signs of Recovery After Zip Line Injury

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<span>Aimee Copeland</span>, a Georgia tyro <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/georgia-student-fighting-life-flesh-eating-infection/story?id=16311568">battling flesh-eating disease</a> after a zip line injury, is display signs of recovery, her family pronounced today. But a 24-year-old is still fighting for her life, relying on a ventilator to breathe.
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“Her condition is still critical,” <span>Copeland</span>‘s father, Andy, told reporters during a press discussion in <span>Augusta, Ga.</span> “If they were to unfasten a ventilator, we don’t know that she could breathe on her own.”
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Copeland was roving a homemade zip line nearby a Little Tallapoosa River May 1 when a line snapped, slicing open her left calf. Bacteria that burrowed low into a wound caused <span>necrotizing fasciitis</span>, a singular though <span>deadly infection</span> that on Friday fo...