(NVONews.Com) Flesh eating bacteria of Aimee Copeland infection
has been explained, but treatment is very difficult, say many
experts who have followed the disease Aimee Copeland is a
24-year-old Georgia student who has lost her leg to a deadly
infection called necrotizing fasciitis and the responsible
bacteria, Aeromonas hydrophila, is now threatening to infect her
remaining limbs. Copeland was admitted to hospital with an ankle
wound that she incurred in a zip line accident over river. the
evidence of her infection arose a day after she was admitted.
Her ankle wound had been deep but it had been cleaned and
stapled by doctors when she was fist admitted. However, the
bacteria is suspected to have burrowed deep and soon infected
her whole leg, which had to be amputated last week. Her
condition worsened after this and her heart stopped beating, but
doctors revived her. Doctors informed that the bacteria that
must have infected her wound thrives in warm and fresh water,
like the river where she got her injury.