Necrotizing fasciitis is a skin infection caused by rare bacteria that enters the body through a break in the skin. From this opening, the bacteria aggressively attacks muscles and other organs ...

Group A strep bacteria. This is the most common cause of necrotizing fasciitis. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS. Only around 0.4 people per 100,000 are infected to the point of necrotizing fasciitis ...

Though necrotizing fasciitis can be caused by more than just one type of bacteria, the most common cause is group A Streptococcus (Group A Strep), per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Often, necrotizing fasciitis occurs in a person with a pre-existing health problem—such as diabetes or lupus—that has left his or her immune system compromised, and thus less able to stave off ...

Doctors in the U.K. have warned gynecologists of the risks of necrotizing fasciitis in the external genitalia after seeing several cases.

Necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as the flesh-eating disease, results from a bacterial infection and rapidly destroys the body's soft tissue.

A 77-year-old woman contracted necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria, from an open scrape on her leg during a visit to the beach. × Skip to main content ...

Necrotizing fasciitis isn’t common. But it does occasionally make the news, usually when a person contracts the illness after exposure to contaminated water—like during Hurricane Harvey—or ...

Aimee Copeland, 24, is currently at JMS Burn Center in Augusta battling necrotizing fasciitis. Facebook (CBS News) Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old graduate student who is fighting for her life ...

Aimee Copeland, 24 Facebook (CBS/AP) AUGUSTA, Ga. - The father of Aimee Copeland, the young Georgia woman battling the flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis, says his daughter has spoken for ...

While group A strep is extremely common, necrotizing fasciitis is not, according to Dr. James Besunder, a pediatric critical care doctor at Akron Children’s Hospital, who has been treating Tessa.

Necrotizing fasciitis is a skin infection caused by rare bacteria that enters the body through a break in the skin. From this opening, the bacteria aggressively attacks muscles and other organs ...