Consider the following medical report that includes the patient's historical health records. Use it to predict the disease that the patient is high likely exposed to. 

 Medical Report: history of present illness: patient is a 42-year-old gentleman with a history of rheumatic fever, who approximately three nights prior to admission developed difficulty breathing, jumping out of his bed and landing on his left lower extremity in what he described as a strange fashion and twisting his left leg. was able to bear weight shortly after, but had sharp penetrating pain. on the day of admission, he came into the emergency room because of fever without any shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, upper respiratory symptoms, urinary symptoms, or diarrhea. physical examination: on examination, the patient had a temperature of 103.2 and on examination, his left thigh was noted to have erythema superior and lateral to the knee. a left knee effusion without any breaks in the skin. the patient was also noted on admission to have a white count of 21.5. the rest of his laboratories were normal. patient was admitted to the medicine service at the time, however, general surgery was consulted that same night. concern was indicated by the general surgery team that the patient likely had fasciitis and the patient was subsequently taken to the operating room for biopsy versus debridement. a left knee aspirate was also performed by orthopedics team indicating approximately 60 cc of pus aspirated. the patient was subsequently transferred to the surgical intensive care unit after the i&d was performed. the patient on developed worsening redness on his affected left thigh, and was subsequently taken to the operating room for an open incision and drainage of his left thigh. after surgery was performed, the patient was transferred back to the intensive care unit. on , the patient was taken back to the operating room by the plastic surgery team for further i&d of the left thigh with washout. the patient was transferred back to the floor at regular floor at that time. wound vac was placed on . he was continued on penicillin per id recommendations for type a strep from his wound. on , the patient started physical therapy which he tolerated well. a vac change was also performed on , which the patient tolerated without difficulty. on the day of discharge, , the patient was stable, was ambulating with assistance. urination and defecation was normal. he had been stable on wound vac. discharge status: home with vna services and pt. discharge diagnoses: fasciitis and myositis status post irrigation, drainage, and debridement. discharge medications: 1. aspirin 325 po q day. 2. percocet 1-2 tablets po q4-6h. 3. penicillin g potassium 4 milliunits iv q4h given via picc line that the patient received on his final day in the hospital. followup: follow up was scheduled with dr. in two weeks. , m.d. dictated by: medquist36 procedure: fasciotomy other local excision or destruction of lesion of joint, knee other local excision or destruction of lesion of joint, knee excisional debridement of wound, infection, or burn arthroscopy, knee arthroscopy, knee diagnoses: myalgia and myositis, unspecified necrotizing fasciitis pyogenic arthritis, lower leg 

Answer: The patient is high likely exposed to