From CMMB class: Flesh eating disease or Necrotizing fasciitis is caused normally by the Streptococcus A group bacteria, the kind that would normally give one Strep throat. It's normally already present in your body, but I think it gets bad if it's gets into your blood stream through a wound to cause septicemia, or blood poisoning. The bacteria starts to release exotoxins that damages the cells around the affected wound. Your body makes it worse by over stimulating the immune response and all sorts of chemicals and free radicals are released. Together, that's what causes the surrounding tissues to die. It's rapidly spreading, but actually hard to diagnosis at first since initial signs are just pain and reddness. With pregnancy, that's normally expected so I don't think anyone was looking that it was flesh eating disease right off the bat.
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