Kiwi recovering from flesh-eating disease nightmareABIGAIL DOUGHERTY/STUFF Trevor Sykes is recovering at home in Mangawhai after contracting the flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis in Scotland. Twenty-four hours after feeling a slight "twinge" in his leg, Trevor Sykes was undergoing emergency surgery to remove tissue infected with a flesh-eating disease. Days later, flesh-eating bacteria strikes* Muscle-eating disease like 'Pac-Man'CARINA SYKES Scores of Trevor's tissue had to be cut from his leg after contracting the flesh-eating disease. Doctors were quick to diagnose the flesh-eating disease and he was rushed into emergency surgery, his liver and kidneys already starting to fail. "The reasons why these groups have higher rates of necrotising fasciitis is not clear at present, and needs further study."

Source: Stuff December 23, 2017 06:22 UTC