Tammy Cox is being consumed by flesh-eating bacteria. The Florida mother is in a medically induced coma at Orlando Regional Medical Center, where WKMG-TV says doctors are soaking her body in raw bleach in the hope that this will kill the deadly bacteria.
"It just kept eating away at her," Cindy Cox, her sister, said. "So, they kept taking more and more and her whole backside is gone."
How often are people infected with this bacteria? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there were about 600 cases reported in 1999.
WKMG-TV has photos of Cox. (You may find them too graphic.)
Learn more about flesh-eating bacteria, which causes soft-tissue gangrene, at this site maintained by the National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation. The Manitoba health department has a detailed -- and helpful -- factsheet about necrotizing fasciitis. So does Cigna.
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