Hospital-Related Infection — Worldwide/Unknown
A life-threatening, flesh-eating bacteria is spreading in northern Stockholm, where hospital staff have recorded an immense spike in the number of cases in recent years. “The disease is one of the most dramatic conditions that we see in orthopedic surgery. It has an extremely quick onset which can make it seem truly dramatic,” Olof Sklodenberg, orthopedist at the hospital, told the Dagens Medicin newspaper.
Necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly known as flesh-eating disease, is an extremely
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