Man nearly loses leg to flesh-eating bacteria after bitten by relative

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Man nearly loses leg to flesh-eating bacteria after bitten by relative
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Donnie Adams said he was breaking up a family fight when a relative bit him. He has since recovered from the life-threatening infection.

But the medication didn’t help. Adams was in a lot of pain and wasn’t able to walk over the next few days. He felt something wasn’t right, so he went to the emergency room at HCA Florida Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, where doctors, as per severalAs per Adams’ surgeon, Fritz Brink, when he cut the wound open, he could see a layer of rotting flesh spread out from Adams’ knee to his groin. Brink took out almost 70% of the tissue at the front of Adams’ knee.

But the doctors at HCA Florida Northside Hospital said that they had never seen a case like Adams’, where the infection was the result of a human bite, as per a“A human bite is dirtier than a dog bite as far as the kinds of bacteria that grows,” said Dr. Brink. “Normal bacteria in an abnormal spot can be a real problem.”

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