Flesh-eating germ rare, especially for the healthy

Monday, May 14, 2012 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

ATLANTA (AP) -- Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be too, her father says, because of the spreading infection....

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