Rare Flesh-Eating Disease in Zip Line Accident Caused by Common Bacteria

<p>The singular flesh-eating illness that claimed a Georgia womans leg and has her fighting for her life was caused by a common bacteria that thrives in comfortable climates and uninformed water.</p>

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Aimee Copeland, a 24-year aged masters tyro during a University of West Georgia, has necrotizing fasciitis caused by Aeromonas hydrophila, a germ customarily related to abdominal disease.</p>

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This germ is a common means of diarrheal illness, pronounced Dr. William Schaffner, chair of surety medicine during Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., and boss of a National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. For it to means a low wound infection that dissolves tissue, thats not common.</p>

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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. Doctors during Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga., spotless a indenture and sealed it with 22 staples...