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Florida man infected with flesh-eating bacteria after being bitten by family member [1]
['David Pescovitz']
Date: 2023-06-10
Donnie Adams of Tampa Bay, Florida, was enjoying himself at a recent family gathering when two relatives got into a dispute. Adams attempted to intervene but one of the two people arguers bit him on the leg. He smartly visited the hospital for a tetanus shot and antibiotics, but the fun didn't end there. From KTLA:
"By the third day, my leg was very sore. I couldn't walk, it was very warm and very painful," said Adams.
His infection worsening, Adams was rushed to the ER at HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital in St. Petersburg.
"I looked at him and I said to him that I need to take you to the operating room," recalled Dr. Fritz Brink, an osteopathic physician at HCA Florida.
Dr. Brink said he found something worse than what he expected: necrotizing fasciitis. This bacterial condition, more commonly known as a flesh-eating bacteria, travels along the muscle sheath and destroys healthy tissue[…]
"There's a lot of really bad bacteria that live between our teeth in our gums in our mouth," said Dr. Brink.
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