Flesh Eating Disease

Invasive strep: ‘Don’t wait’ to seek care, N.S. woman warns on long road to recovery

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Invasive strep: ‘Don’t wait’ to seek care, N.S. woman warns on long road to recovery

Kelly Doucet won’t be forgetting her one-year wedding anniversary anytime soon. Instead of having a romantic dinner with her husband, Steve, the Yarmouth, N.S., woman was in hospital recovering from painful surgery. She’s now warning others that symptoms of invasive group A strep should not be ignored. “If we had waited, Steve would be planning … Read more

‘Leg for a life’: B.C. man looks forward after amputation due to flesh-eating disease

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‘Leg for a life’: B.C. man looks forward after amputation due to flesh-eating disease

Vancouver firefighter Christopher Won said he is just feeling lucky to be alive after a devastating diagnosis on his vacation forced the amputation of his lower leg. Won contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a rare, life-threatening disease, while travelling with his family in Asia. “On the tail end of the Singapore phase, literally the morning that we … Read more